A two-stage approach for surgery scheduling

Liwei Zhong (), Shoucheng Luo (), Lidong Wu (), Lin Xu (), Jinghui Yang () and Guochun Tang ()
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Liwei Zhong: Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated First People’s Hospital
Shoucheng Luo: Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Lidong Wu: University of Texas at Dallas
Lin Xu: Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated First People’s Hospital
Jinghui Yang: Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Guochun Tang: Shanghai Second Polytechnic University

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2014, vol. 27, issue 3, No 10, 545-556

Abstract: Abstract A scheduling theory model is applied to study surgery scheduling in hospitals. If a surgical patient is regarded as a job waiting to be processed, and the related surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and surgical equipment as machines that are simultaneously needed for the processing of job, then the surgery scheduling can be described as a parallel machines scheduling problem in which a job is processed by multiple machines simultaneously. We adopt the two-stage approach to solve this scheduling problem and develop a computerized surgery scheduling system to handle such a task. This system was implemented in the Shanghai First People’s Hospital and increased the quantity of average monthly finished operations by 10.33 %, the utilization rate of expensive equipment by 9.66 % and the patient satisfaction degree by 1.12 %, and decreased the average length of time that patients wait for surgery by 0.46 day.

Keywords: Operations research; Computerized surgery scheduling; Traditional surgery scheduling; Surgical resource utilization; Integer programming; Resource weight (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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