In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

Abstract The Perioperative Surgical Home is a model adopted by the American Society of
Anesthesiologists to increase quality and patient safety and to decrease costs. This Special …

The operating room is a major cost and revenue center for most hospitals. Thus, more
effective operating room management and scheduling can provide significant benefits. In …

Background Postoperative residual curarization (PORC)[train-of-four ratio (T4/T1)< 0.9] is
associated with increased morbidity and may delay postoperative recovery room (PACU) …

A scheduling strategy to determine starting times of surgeries in multiple operating rooms
(OR) is presented. The constraints are resource limit of a downstream facility, post …

The operating room (OR) schedule is a living and breathing organism filled with patients
needing elective, urgent, and emergent operations. When considering how to increase …

Background Patient flow directly affects quality of care, access and financial performance for
hospitals. Multidisciplinary discharge-focused rounds have proven to minimise avoidable …

BACKGROUND: Prolonged time to extubation has been defined as the occurrence of a≥ 15-
minute interval from the end of surgery to removal of the tracheal tube. We quantified the …

Operating room (OR) planning and scheduling decisions involve the coordination of
patients, medical staff, and hospital facilities. The patients arriving to the hospital are …

Objective: To alleviate the surgical patient flow congestion in the perioperative environment
without additional resources. Background: Massachusetts General Hospital experienced …