ArticleHealth care management science2013
Balancing operating theatre and bed capacity in a cardiothoracic centre.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Advancing evidence-based healthcare facility design: a systematic literature review.Health care management science · 2020Pooled it
- Forecasting Surgical Bed Utilization: Architectural Design of a Machine Learning Pipeline Incorporating Predicted Length of Stay and Surgical Volume.Journal of medical systems · 2025Article
- Constructing operating theatre schedules using partitioned graph colouring techniques.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2021Article
- The Surge After the Surge: Cardiac Surgery Post-COVID-19.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2020Article
- Integrated Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Considerations for Patients' Length-of-Stays.Production and operations management · 2019Article
- Operations research in intensive care unit management: a literature review.Health care management science · 2018Review
- Quantifying the effect of complications on patient flow, costs and surgical throughputs.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2016Article
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Abstract
Cardiothoracic surgery requires many expensive resources. This paper examines the balance between operating theatres and beds in a specialist facility providing elective heart and lung surgery. Without both operating theatre time and an Intensive Care bed a patient's surgery has to be postponed. While admissions can be managed, there are significant stochastic features, notably the cancellation of theatre procedures and patients' length of stay on the Intensive Care Unit. A simulation was developed, with clinical and management staff, to explore the interdependencies of resource availabilities and the daily demand. The model was used to examine options for expanding the capacity of the whole facility. Ideally the bed and theatre capacity should be well balanced but unmatched increases in either resource can still be beneficial. The study provides an example of a capacity planning problem in which there is uncertainty in the demand for two symbiotic resources.
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