Slated versus actual operating room entry time in a British Columbia health authority

Climate Change and Health in British Columbia

How British Columbia is greening health systems.

Greening the healthcare system one hospital at a time could take a long time. But with regionalization, whole health systems can begin to take on the task of becoming more environmentally friendly; this is now beginning in at least two of British Columbia’s regional health authorities. The Interior Health Authority (IHA) has established a Green Committee, chaired by their director of plant main...

A Retrospective Analysis of Surgeon Estimated Time and Actual Operative Time to Develop an Efficient Operating Room Scheduling System

Problem: Surgical departments account for sizable budgets in hospitals. To ensure efficiency, optimal processes need to be maintained. The current practice for posting a surgical case is using surgeon estimated times (SETs), which only includes the reporting points of component 2 (C2) “incision” to “dressing.” Objective: To analyze if there was a significant difference in minutes between actual...

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...

British Columbia.

Affum as p a r t of a Commission and t h e B r i t i s h Columbia Round Table o n t h e Environment and t h e Economy. I t is p a r t of a series of background reports d e a l i n g with i s s u e s which Round T a b l e committees considered i m p o r t a n t t o t h e development of a sustainable development strategy i n B r i t i s h Columbia. and i s intended t o provide information which w...