Scheduling operating rooms: achievements, challenges and pitfalls
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Citations
Perioperative COVID-19 Defense: An Evidence-Based Approach for Optimization of Infection Control and Operating Room Management.
Managing the overflow of intensive care patients
Literature review on multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals
Collaborative Operating Room Planning and Scheduling
Different stakeholders’ perspectives for a surgical case assignment problem: Deterministic and robust approaches
References
Master surgery scheduling with consideration of multiple downstream units
An elective surgery scheduling problem considering patient priority
A Hierarchical Multiple Criteria Mathematical Programming Approach for Scheduling General Surgery Operations in Large Hospitals
Surgical process scheduling: a structured review
Tactical increases in operating room block time for capacity planning should not be based on utilization.
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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
Q2. What have the authors stated for future works in "Scheduling operating rooms: achievements, challenges and pitfalls" ?
The authors classified the OR planning and scheduling literature over the years 2000-2014 with regard to the patient type, the different performance measures, the decision that has to be made, the integration of OR supporting units, the incorporation of uncertainty, the operations research methodology and the testing phase. For example, generally articles where analytical methods ( e. g., Markov models ) are used, will often assume estimated durations to be equal, as this is a strong assumption one should be careful when generalizing the results of these methods to inpatient scheduling.
Q3. What are the common types of PMs used in the DES literature?
For instance, PMs that are mostly used in the DES literature are patient waiting time, overutilization, utilization, throughput and deferral.
Q4. What is the common assumption used to solve the patient-to-date assignment problem?
An assumption that is typically made when using an MP or an improvement heuristic to solve the patient-to-date assignment problem is that the patient population that needs to be scheduled is known in advance (i.e., at the moment of scheduling).
Q5. What is the reason for the lack of use of dynamic scheduling methods in the surgery scheduling literature?
the methods that are used for dynamic scheduling in an appointment setting are not easily transferable to a surgery scheduling setting for various modeling reasons (e.g., estimated slot durations in the former setting are assumed to be of equal length, while in the latter they are highly variable).
Q6. What is the role of rescheduling in hospitals?
Research is needed on applicable rescheduling policies since it is an important mechanism in hospitals which affects both patient and staff satisfaction.