Innovative operating room scheduling metric for creating surgical lists with desirable room utilisation rates

Operating Room Scheduling Considering Patient Priorities and Operating Room Preferences: A Case Study

Operating rooms have become the most important areas in hospitals because of the scarcity and cost of resources. The present study investigates operating room scheduling and rescheduling considering the priority of surgical patients in a specialized hospital. The ultimate purpose of scheduling is to minimize patient waiting time, surgeon idle time between surgeries, and penalties for deviations...

Enterprise-wide patient scheduling information systems to coordinate surgical clinic and operating room scheduling can impair operating room efficiency.

A s revenues have decreased, health care systems have instituted intensive cost reduction programs, such as the use of pharmaceutical practice guidelines, to attempt to maintain profitability. After implementing such initiatives, some health care systems are having difficulty in further decreasing costs without sacrificing customer (patient) service. The next generation of process improvement e...

Patient Admission Scheduling with Operating Room Constraints

We propose an extension of the PAS problem described in our previous work [6], which considers also constraints about the utilisation of operating rooms for patients that have to undergo a surgery. We design a solution approach based on local search, which explores the search space using complex neighbourhood operators.

Modified WHO Surgical safety check - lists for MRI - related safety in hybrid operating room

Operating Room Scheduling in Teaching Hospitals

Operating room scheduling is an important operational problem in most hospitals. In this paper, a novel mixed integer programming MIP model is presented for minimizing Cmax and operating room idle times in hospitals. Using this model, we can determine the allocation of resources including operating rooms, surgeons, and assistant surgeons to surgeries, moreover the sequence of surgeries within o...