Simulating a Portuguese hospital master surgery schedule

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Bernardo Almada Lobo (Author) FEUP; José Luís Moura Borges (Author) FEUP; António Carvalho Brito (Author) FEUP; Morteo, A (Author) Other; Sperandio, F (Author) Other; Gomes, C (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Pages: 1-4

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Braga, 16 November 2011 through 18 November 2011

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-388

DOI: 10.1109/segah.2011.6165449

Abstract (EN): Hospital performance is a critical issue in society and its assessment must be tactfully studied in order to evaluate future decisions. In this paper we report an operating theatre study based on a simulation model, describing one of the biggest public hospitals in the north of Portugal. The model encompasses several operating rooms shared among different medical services and considers the arrival of both elective and emergency patients. We focus on a critical planning problem of the operating theatre, the allocation of medical services to operating rooms and shifts. With a discrete-event simulation model we assess the performance of the current schedule distribution and perform a set of tests in order to find a better master surgery schedule. Experiments show improvement opportunities by balancing surgical services capacities. © 2011 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific