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  • Healthcare Operations Research
  • Hospital Resource Management
  • Surgical Workflow Optimization

Background:

  • Conventional operating room scheduling often overlooks stochastic medical resources, leading to inefficient human resource distribution.
  • Existing models primarily focus on surgeons as the sole bottleneck, neglecting other critical, variable resources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the dynamic configuration scheduling problem for stochastic medical resources in hospital operating rooms.
  • To identify bottleneck resources in operating room scheduling under conditions of uncertainty.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of the drum-buffer-rope (DBR) scheduling approach to analyze resource bottlenecks.
  • Application of Monte Carlo simulation to verify the effectiveness of the DBR method in uncertain environments.

Main Results:

  • The drum-buffer-rope (DBR) method effectively analyzes bottleneck resources in dynamic operating room scheduling.
  • The study demonstrates the DBR approach's capability to manage stochastic medical resources and optimize scheduling.

Conclusions:

  • The drum-buffer-rope (DBR) scheduling approach provides a robust framework for optimizing operating room resource allocation.
  • Effective management of stochastic medical resources is crucial for improving hospital operational efficiency and patient flow.