A Method for Clustering Surgical Cases to Allow Master Surgical Scheduling

A Method for Clustering Surgical Cases to Allow Master Surgical Scheduling

Master surgical scheduling can improve manageability and efficiency of operating room departments. This approach cyclically executes a master surgical schedule of surgery types. These surgery types need to be constructed with low variability to be efficient. Each surgery type is scheduled based upon its frequency per cycle. Surgery types that cannot be scheduled repetitively are put together in...

Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach

Operating room (OR) planning and scheduling is a popular and challenging subject within the operational research applied to health services research (ORAHS). However, the impact in practice is very limited. The organization and culture of a hospital and the inherent characteristics of its processes impose specific implementation issues that affect the success of planning approaches. Current tac...

A Master Surgical Scheduling approach for cyclic scheduling in operating room departments

This paper addresses the problem of operating room (OR) scheduling at the tactical level of hospital planning and control. Hospitals repetitively construct operating room schedules, which is a time consuming, tedious and complex task. The stochasticity of the durations of surgical procedures complicates the construction of operating room schedules. In addition, unbalanced scheduling of the oper...

Surgical Cases

Surgical Cases