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Special Topics
Previous chapters have addressed the central concepts pertaining to a
discrete event simulation (DES) developed to inform a health technology
assessment (HTA). In this chapter, several additional topics that are not spe-
cic to DES are covered. The chapter begins with a delineation of what needs
to be documented during the process of designing, constructing, validating,
and analyzing a model. This is followed by a brief explanation of a tool not
much used for HTA DES, the animation of a simulation. Software, both spe-
cialized and general, is described next. The chapter concludes with exten-
sions of DES; rst a short section ...