Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms

Abstract

The operations management is a multidisciplinary field that investigates, for instance, the design, management and processes improvement focused on the development, production, distribution and delivery of products and services, encompassing activities such as the implementation of policies, making quota decisions, identification and problem solving, response to uncertainty, among others. Regarding the resources dimensioning in hospitals, the Brazilian scenario is limited to legislative instruments that assume a prior and added sizing. This chapter uses a discrete event simulation tool to set the amount of operation rooms needed for patient care in an emergency department, so that emergency patients have guaranteed compliance, minimizing the cancellation of elective surgeries because of this type of demand. As a result, it was found that the minimum amount established by normative instruments was not appropriate to the specific requirements of the organization.

Maximizing the efficiency of residents operating room scheduling: a case study at a teaching hospital

“…More recently, however, with declining birth rates in almost all developed countries, and increasing average longevity overall, optimization issues in healthcare have become notoriously important, attracting research institutions and great social interest. Over the years, attention has gradually expanded from resource allocation and strategic planning to include operational issues, such as resource scheduling and treatment planning (Rais & Viana, 2011;Silva et al, 2018;Assad et al, 2018b).…”