ArticleHealth care management science2010
Analysing management policies for operating room planning using simulation.
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- Evaluating the Impact of the Level of Robustness in Operating Room Scheduling Problems.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fractured systems: a literature review of OR/MS methods applied to orthopaedic care settings and treatments.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2024Review
- Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Simulation-based evaluation of operating room management policies.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Surgical workflow simulation for the design and assessment of operating room setups in orthopedic surgery.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Article
- Decreasing patient length of stay via new flexible exam room allocation policies in ambulatory care clinics.Health care management science · 2018Article
- A systematic literature review of simulation models for non-technical skill training in healthcare logistics.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2018Article
- A Literature Review on Validated Simulations of the Surgical Services.Journal of medical systems · 2017Review
- A MIP Model for Rolling Horizon Surgery Scheduling.Journal of medical systems · 2016Article
- Secondary Complications in SCI Across the Continuum: Using Operations Research to Predict the Impact and Optimize Management Strategies.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2012Article
- Previous research in operating room scheduling and staffing.Health care management science · 2010Article
- Operating room use for emergency general surgery cases: analysis of the Patterns of Complex Emergency General Surgery in Canada study.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
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Abstract
In this paper we analyse the operating room planning at a department of orthopaedic surgery in Sweden. We focus on the problem of meeting the uncertainty in demand of patient arrival and surgery duration and at the same time maximizing the utilization of operating room (OR) time. With a discrete-event model we simulate how different management polices affect different performance metrics such as patient waiting time, cancellations and the utilization of OR time. The experiments show that the performance of the operating room department can be improved significantly by applying a different policy in reserving OR-capacity for emergency cases together with a policy to increase staff in stand-by. Moreover, the developed simulation model provides estimates for a what-if situation related to the prognosis of an increasing number of hip-joint replacements.
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