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Analysing management policies for operating room planning using simulation.

Marie Jeanette Persson1, Jan A Persson

  • 1Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Soft Center, 372 25 Ronneby, Sweden. Marie.Persson@bth.se

Health Care Management Science
|July 16, 2010
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Optimizing operating room (OR) planning in orthopedic surgery can reduce patient wait times and cancellations. Implementing policies for emergency cases and standby staff significantly improves OR utilization and efficiency.

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Published on: May 20, 2018

Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Operations Research
  • Surgical Workflow Optimization
  • Health Systems Management

Background:

  • Orthopedic surgery departments face challenges in balancing patient demand uncertainty with maximizing operating room (OR) utilization.
  • Inefficient OR planning leads to increased patient waiting times, procedure cancellations, and underutilized resources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze operating room planning in an orthopedic surgery department.
  • To investigate strategies for managing demand uncertainty and maximizing OR utilization.
  • To evaluate the impact of different management policies on key performance metrics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized discrete-event simulation modeling to analyze OR planning.
  • Simulated various management policies to assess their effects on performance.
  • Focused on metrics including patient waiting time, cancellations, and OR utilization.

Main Results:

  • Significant improvements in OR department performance were observed.
  • A revised policy for reserving OR capacity for emergency cases proved effective.
  • Implementing a policy for increased standby staff also enhanced performance.

Conclusions:

  • Strategic adjustments in OR capacity allocation for emergencies and staffing policies can optimize orthopedic surgery operations.
  • The developed simulation model offers valuable insights for 'what-if' scenarios, such as increased hip-joint replacement demand.