Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach

Oostrum, Jeroen M. van; Bredenhoff, Eelco; Hans, Erwin W.

doi:10.1007/s10479-009-0619-z

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“…For a detailed discussion on the pros and cons of an MSS, the reader is referred to the recent work of van Oostrum et al [66]. Moreover, even if the literature on the tactical level was rather poor, novel and interesting papers have been published during the last three years.…”

Section: Master Surgical Schedule Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational research in the management of the operating theatre: a survey

Guerriero

Guido

2010

Health Care Manag Sci

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Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main objectives are to guarantee the optimal utilization of medical resources, the delivery of surgery at the right time, the maximisation of profitability (i.e., patient flow) without incurring additional costs or excessive patient waiting time. The operating theatre management is a process very complex: the use of mathematical and simulation models, and quantitative techniques plays, thus a crucial role. The main aim of this paper is to provide a structured literature review on how Operational Research can be applied to the surgical planning and scheduling processes. A particular attention is on the published papers that present the most interesting mathematical (optimization and simulation) models and solution approaches developed to address the problems arising in operating theatres. Directions for future researches are also highlighted.

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Section: Master Surgical Schedule Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operational research in the management of the operating theatre: a survey

Guerriero

Guido

2010

Health Care Manag Sci

429

263

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“…The loss of information due to this aggregation (e.g., surgery duration will be less predictive) will be compensated by benefits inherent to the MSS approach (12). Still, when constructing surgery types, we aim to minimize the loss of information in the process of constructing surgery types.…”

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“…The hospital has approximately 329 beds. Beatrix hospital currently implements the MSS approach as described by Van Oostrum et al (12). Using an MSS, it aims to optimize operating room utilization and to improve the leveling of ward occupancy.…”

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A Method for Clustering Surgical Cases to Allow Master Surgical Scheduling

Oostrum

Parlevliet

Wagelmans

et al. 2011

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research

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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 so-called dummy surgeries. Narrow defined surgery types, with low variability, lead to a large volume of such dummy surgeries that reduce the benefits of a master surgical scheduling approach. In this paper we propose a method, based on Ward's hierarchical cluster method, to obtain surgery types that minimizes the weighted sum of the dummy surgery volume and the variability in resource demand of surgery types. The resulting surgery types (clusters) are thus based on logical features and can be used in master surgical scheduling. The approach is successfully tested on a case study in a regional hospital.

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“…According to this strategy, each surgical specialty receives a given number of operating room blocks, in which it can schedule its surgical cases (van Oostrum et al 2010). The operating room blocks cannot be shared among surgical specialties.…”

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Operating room scheduling and rescheduling: a rolling horizon approach

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The mission of the Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, formerly known as the International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, is to publish original, high-quality research papers in the field of services and manufacturing management. All aspects in this field including the interface between engineering and management, the design and analysis of service and manufacturing systems as well as operational planning and decision support are covered. The journal seeks papers that have a clear focus on the applicability in the real business world including all kinds of services and manufacturing industries, e.g. in logistics, transportation, health care, manufacturing-based services, production planning and control, and supply chain management. Flexibility should be understood in its widest sense as a system's ability to respond to changes in the environment through improved decision making and business development procedures and enabling IT solutions.

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Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach

Cited by 54 publications

References 40 publications

Operational research in the management of the operating theatre: a survey

Operational research in the management of the operating theatre: a survey

A Method for Clustering Surgical Cases to Allow Master Surgical Scheduling

Operating room scheduling and rescheduling: a rolling horizon approach

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