Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Stress-testing the resilience of the Austrian healthcare system using agent-based simulation

  • Michaela Kaleta,
  • Jana Lasser,
  • Elma Dervic,
  • Liuhuaying Yang,
  • Johannes Sorger,
  • D. Ruggiero Lo Sardo,
  • Stefan Thurner,
  • Alexandra Kautzky-Willer,
  • Peter Klimek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31766-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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As mass quarantines, absences due to sickness, or other shocks thin out patient-physician networks, the system might be pushed to a tipping point where it loses its ability to deliver care. Here, the authors propose a data-driven framework to quantify regional resilience to such shocks via an agent-based model.