Scheduling prioritized patients in emergency department laboratories

Managing urgent care in hospitals

“…Ambulatory services provide care to (urgent) patients without offering a room and/or bed to patients. Examples of ambulatory care services used by urgent patients are laboratories that carry out tests [16,204], outpatient clinics [73,141,229,234], and imaging diagnostics facilities (e.g., CT scanners) [35,79,84,143,172,215,240]. Table 2.2 lists the papers per hospital department considered.…”

“…Treat (low urgency) ED patients in GPP rooms (16) Let physician assistants treat both ED and GPP patients (17) Let ED nurse treat GPP patients (18) Let ED nurse specialists/residents treat GPP patients (19) Resource Rest…”

“…References Operating theater [2, 8, 17, 18, 32, 61, 63, 64, 68, 77, 93, 106, 113, 125, 126, 147, 153-156, 171, 184, 192, 195, 199, 201, 207, 225-228, 247, 249, 253, 262, 263] Wards [2, 17, 18, 18, 18, 22, 24, 33, 37, 37, 37, 45, 50, 51, 61, 71, 81, 83, 87, 90, 97, 103, 103, 104, 109, 125, 125, 133, 142, 147, 149-151, 157, 166, 169, 171, 175, 180, 193, 194, 206, 213, 217, 226, 231, 237, 242, 245, 246, 258, 260] Emergency department [1, 3, 5, 12-14, 19, 22, 23, 29, 33, 36, 39, 44, 47-49, 51-53, 55, 58, 59, 62, 71, 72, 74, 85, 90, 92, 97-99, 107, 108, 111, 118, 121, 122, 124, 127, 130-132, 136, 137, 142, 144, 145, 148, 152, 157, 159, 161, 163, 164, 166, 173-176, 179, 180, 183, 188, 191, 205, 206, 208-213, 216, 217, 220, 221, 224, 231, 232, 237, 243, 244, 246, 250, 251, 255, 256, 258, 259, 261] Ambulatory care [16,33,35,73,79,84,90,112,120,123,141,143,157,172,174,202,204,215,229,234,240,260] these papers, the effect of ward sizes on congestion levels at the ED is evaluated. For example, [166] use a queuing approach to model both ED and downstream inpatient units.…”

“…Given the blueprints of capacity allocated to patients, both the scheduling of elective patients under uncertain non-elective arrivals is considered [229,234,240], as well as scheduling of non-elective patients themselves [10,16,112,202,229,234,240] to specific times in the schedule. The dynamic assignment of patients is also studied.…”

“…Table 2.4 lists the publications per department and planning level. [68,199,225,226,253,263] tactical [2, 8, 17, 18, 68, 93, 125, 147, 171, 195, 225-228, 249, 262, 263] operational [2, 18, 32, 61, 63, 64, 77, 93, 106, 113, 126, 153-156, 184, 192, 201, 207, 247, 249 [33,35,73,79,90,120,123,141,143,174,204,215,260] operational [16,73,84,112,143,172,202,229,234,240] N/A 2.3. Results…”