Simulation of a schedule-based mass vaccination clinic

Ludovica Adacher, Marta Flamini and Maurizio Naldi

Journal of Simulation, 2024, vol. 18, issue 5, 903-919

Abstract: The insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled many countries to set up vaccination clinics to carry out mass vaccination campaigns. Though sizing a clinic impacts both costs and service quality, and costs must be scaled up nationwide, those clinics and their staffing have often been put into service without a proper design phase. In this paper, we propose a simulator that allows us to analyse a vaccination clinic’s performance and optimise its capacity and staff level, considering typical schedule-based operations. Though a trade-off is unavoidable between cost and service quality, the latter being represented by the throughput time, we show that we can achieve a significant increase in the efficient use of nurses’ time with a small sacrifice in service quality, i.e., a small increase of the throughput time.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/17477778.2023.2260348

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