ArticleJournal of medical systems2020
Optimization of the Operating Room Scheduling Process for Improving Efficiency in a Tertiary Hospital.
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- Operating Room Performance Optimization Metrics: a Systematic Review.Journal of medical systems · 2023Pooled it
- Implementation of Image-Based Artificial Intelligence Is Associated with Increased Case Volume in a High-Acuity, 15-Room Cardiothoracic Operating Suite at a Tertiary Academic Hospital.Journal of imaging · 2026Article
- Predicting Pediatric Urological Surgery Duration Through Multimodal Patient-Physician Feature Fusion: Deep Learning Framework Incorporating Clinical Text Embedding.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
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- Optimizing the Efficiency of Operating Room by Extending the Working Hours during Evening and Weekends.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2025Article
- Exploring the Landscape of Operating Room Scheduling: A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Advancements and Future Prospects.Biomedical engineering and computational biology · 2025Review
- Optimizing neurosurgical operating room schedule: Integrating machine learning models for operative time prediction and schedule design.Surgical neurology international · 2025Article
- Bibliometric Research on Surgical Scheduling Management from the Perspective of Web of Science.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Dynamic Surgery Scheduling Based on an Improved Genetic Algorithm.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2021Article
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Abstract
Efficient operating room (OR) scheduling can improve OR utilization and reduce costs. We hypothesize that the scheduling office (ORSO) leading the modification scheduling process could increase OR utilization rate. Using retrospective data from a single tertiary hospital in two consecutive calendar years, we compared OR utilization rate, the number of daily cases and cumulative operative time in the pre- and post-implementation of scheduling process alteration. We operated about 100,609 cases in the OR during the study period. Daytime utilization rate increased from 85.6% to 89.4% (P < 0.001); overall OR utilization rate from 115.1% to 117.6% (P = 0.019); daily case numbers from 229.9 ± 7.3 to 239.6 ± 7.6 (P = 0.0.14); and cumulative operation time of total and daytime cases from 611.7 case-hour/day to 624.5 case-hour/day (P = 0.013) and from 510.8 case-hour/day to 533.8 case-hour/day (P < 0.001), respectively. Evening/night time case-hour significantly decreased from 100.9 case-hour/day to 90.7 case-hour/day (P < 0.001). The optimization of the scheduling process and coordination by the office during regular workhours resulted in enhanced OR efficiency. The OR scheduling office can act as a control tower to make OR management more flexible, which can improve efficiency and carry financial benefits in tertiary hospitals.
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