Guide to an Effective Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgical Center

Guide to Ophthalmic Equipment

Outpatient Surgery in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center: Promise and Problems

A Guide to Ophthalmic Operations

Guide to Safe Medical Practice in Outpatient Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic

  Background and aims: Presently, human kind is challenging with a highly contagious disease, COVID-19, caused by a newly emerged virus, SARS-COV2. Health care providers are at the front line of fighting, as well as, at the risk of getting infected.  Many attempts have been made to combat the disease are mostly focused on hospital settings rather than outpatient settings so far. Therefore, add...

Bi-criteria Scheduling of Surgical Services for an Outpatient Procedure Center

Uncertainty in the duration of surgical procedures can cause long patient wait times, poor utilization of resources, and high overtime costs. We compare several heuristics for scheduling an Outpatient Procedure Center. First, a discrete event simulation model is used to evaluate how 12 different sequencing and patient appointment time setting heuristics perform with respect to the competing cri...