In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or inpatient basis. Outpatients normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital same day, while inpatients who need more complex have to stay overnight. More recently, a shift from surgery is occurring due scientific progress in anaesthesia surgical techniques. Identifying possible similarities differences between schedulin...

introduction: global patient safety is the concern of all areas of the health care. in addition to the human suffering in those inflicted unsafe care and services, it has a heavy economic cost. due to the sensitive patient safety in the operation rooms, the present study aimed to assess patient safety in the operating rooms. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conduct...

specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: A tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesth Analg 2006; 103:1499 –516 6. Dexter F, Willemsen-Dunlap A, Lee JD: Operating room managerial decision-making on the day of surgery with and without computer recommendations and status displays. Anesth Analg 2007; 105:...

UNLABELLED Determining the appropriate amount of block time to allocate to surgeons and selecting the days on which to schedule elective cases can maximize operating room (OR) use. We used computer simulation to model OR scheduling. Inputs in the computer model included different methods to determine when a patient will have surgery (on-line bin-packing algorithms), case durations, lengths of t...

UNLABELLED We considered elective case scheduling at hospitals and surgical centers at which surgeons and patients choose the day of surgery, cases are not turned away, and anesthesia and nursing staffing are adjusted to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room (OR) time. We investigated scheduling a new case into an OR by using two patient-scheduling rules: Earliest Start Time or Lates...