An exact approach for relating recovering surgical patient workload to the master surgical schedule

P T Vanberkel, R J Boucherie, E W Hans, J L Hurink, W A M van Lent and W H van Harten
Additional contact information
P T Vanberkel: 1] University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands[2] Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, the Netherlands
R J Boucherie: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
E W Hans: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
J L Hurink: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
W A M van Lent: 1] University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands[2] Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, the Netherlands
W H van Harten: 1] University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands[2] Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, the Netherlands

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2011, vol. 62, issue 10, 1851-1860

Abstract: No other department influences the workload of a hospital more than the Department of Surgery and in particular, the activities in the operating room. These activities are governed by the master surgical schedule (MSS), which states which patient types receive surgery on which day. In this paper, we describe an analytical approach to project the workload for downstream departments based on this MSS. Specifically, the ward occupancy distributions, patient admission/discharge distributions and the distributions for ongoing interventions/treatments are computed. Recovering after surgery requires the support of multiple departments, such as nursing, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and long-term care. With our model, managers from these departments can determine their workload by aggregating tasks associated with recovering surgical patients. The model, which supported the development of a new MSS at the Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, provides the foundation for a decision support tool to relate downstream hospital departments to the operating room.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v62/n10/pdf/jors2010141a.pdf Link to full text PDF (application/pdf)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v62/n10/full/jors2010141a.html Link to full text HTML (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:62:y:2011:i:10:p:1851-1860

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... search/journal/41274

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of the Operational Research Society is currently edited by Tom Archibald and Jonathan Crook

More articles in Journal of the Operational Research Society from Palgrave Macmillan, The OR Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().