Paper Info
Title
An analytical model for performance evaluation of operating room schedules in orthopedic surgery
Abstract
In orthopedic surgery department, multiple surgeries are carried out in the same operating room every day. Each surgery may have a random duration, differs from the scheduled time, which results in room idle time and patient waiting time. One of the major factors affecting the idle and waiting times is the schedule of surgeries in the operating room. To better sequence of surgeries to reduce idle time and waiting time, an effective performance evaluation method is needed. Although discrete event simulation can be used to evaluate the performance of surgery schedules, it suffers from long simulation time, which makes difficult in scheduling optimization. In this paper, an analytical model to evaluate the performance of operating room schedules in orthopedic surgery department is introduced. Using such a model, the expected idle time and waiting time for a given surgery schedule can be calculated accurately. Such a work provides substantial easiness for optimization of operating room schedules and investigation of the impact of different schedules.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CoASE.2014.6899383
CASE
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,effective performance evaluation method,scheduling,orthopaedics,idle time,patient waiting time,orthopedic surgery department,scheduling optimization,operating room schedules,analytical model,optimization,waiting time,surgery schedule,performance evaluation,orthopedic surgery,room idle time,operating room,surgery,job shop scheduling,accuracy,schedules
Job shop scheduling,Patient waiting,Idle,Simulation,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Schedule,Orthopedic surgery,Idle time,Discrete event simulation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zexian Zeng1185.03
Xiaolei Xie23513.77
Jingshan Li35116.19
Heidi Menaker400.34
Susan G. Sanford-Ring500.34