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Surgical demand scheduling: a review.

J M Magerlein, J B Martin

    Health Services Research
    |January 1, 1978
    PubMed
    Summary
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    This review examines surgical scheduling systems, categorizing them by advance or day-of-surgery patient booking. It highlights challenges in implementing effective hospital surgical suite scheduling strategies.

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    Area of Science:

    • Healthcare Management
    • Operations Research
    • Surgical Suite Optimization

    Background:

    • Hospital surgical suites face challenges in efficiently managing patient demand and optimizing operating room utilization.
    • Existing literature presents various patient scheduling systems and methods for estimating surgical procedure times.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To review and categorize existing literature on patient scheduling for surgery.
    • To outline an approach for enhancing the overall performance of hospital surgical suites.
    • To discuss the barriers to the successful implementation of reported scheduling schemes.

    Main Methods:

    • Literature review of surgical patient scheduling systems.
    • Categorization of scheduling systems into advance scheduling and day-of-surgery scheduling.

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  • Review of methodologies for estimating surgical procedure durations.

    • Main Results:

    • Surgical scheduling systems are broadly classified into two main types: advance scheduling and day-of-surgery scheduling.
    • Various approaches exist for estimating the time required for surgical procedures.
    • A significant number of reported scheduling schemes face implementation challenges.

    Conclusions:

    • Effective scheduling is crucial for improving hospital surgical suite performance.
    • Understanding different scheduling approaches and time estimation methods is key.
    • Addressing implementation barriers is essential for realizing the benefits of surgical scheduling systems.