Managing Operating Rooms

Diwakar Gupta ()
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Diwakar Gupta: The University of Texas at Austin

Chapter Chapter 11 in Healthcare Analytics, 2026, pp 91-97 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter describes patient flow through the operating rooms. It introduces short-, medium-, and long-term operations decisions and challenges for OR managers. It focuses on surgical case scheduling as one of the key decisions that OR managers need to make, introducing students to the two sources of inefficiency—case-by-case scheduling and block booking. It presents a simple linear programming approach for determining optimal scheduled case lengths. The Sun City General Hospital case provides context and data to help students understand the trade-offs in choosing scheduled case lengths for operating rooms.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-24835-0_11

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