Simulation-based evaluation of operating room management policies

Analysing management policies for operating room planning using simulation.

In this paper we analyse the operating room planning at a department of orthopaedic surgery in Sweden. We focus on the problem of meeting the uncertainty in demand of patient arrival and surgery duration and at the same time maximizing the utilization of operating room (OR) time. With a discrete-event model we simulate how different management polices affect different performance metrics such a...

Impact of changed management policies on operating room efficiency

BACKGROUND To increase operating room (OR) efficiency, a new resource allocation strategy, a new policy for patient urgency classification, and a new system for OR booking was implemented at a tertiary referral hospital. We investigated the impact of these interventions. METHODS We carried out a before-and-after study using OR data. A total of 23,515 elective (planned) and non-elective (unpla...

Impact of changed management policies on operating room performance and the distribution of patient categories

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SIMULATION OF A MULTIPLE OPERATING ROOM SURGICAL SUITE Brian

Outpatient surgery scheduling involves the coordination of several activities in an uncertain environment. Due to the very customized nature of surgical procedures there is significant uncertainty in the duration of activities related to the intake process, surgical procedure, and recovery process. Furthermore, there are multiple criteria which must be traded off when considering how to schedul...