Chaabane, Sondès
Laurent, Marius
Guinet, Alain
Meskens, Nadine
[UCL]
Operating Theatre is the centre of the hospital management's efforts. It constitutes the most expensive sector with more than 10% of the intended budget of hospital's functioning. To reduce the costs while maintaining a good quality of care, one of the solutions is to improve the existent planning and scheduling methods by improving the services and surgical specialties coordination or finding the better estimation of surgical cases durations. The other solution is to construct an effective surgical cases plan and schedule. The operating theatre planning and scheduling is the two important steps which aim to make a surgical cases programming with an objective of obtaining a realizable and efficient surgical cases schedule. This paper focuses on the operating theatre planning problem, the first step. We present and compare two planning methods and the impact of their application with real data of a Belgian University hospital "Tivoli".
Bibliographic reference |
Chaabane, Sondès ; Laurent, Marius ; Guinet, Alain ; Meskens, Nadine. Comparison of two operating theatre planning methods: application in Belgian hospital.IEEE SSSM (Troyes, France). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078/18936 |