Biomaterial Database

Creating an optimal operating room schedule. 2005

Murray V Calichman

GBC Consulting Corp, Huntington Station, NY, USA.

SCHEDULING IN THE OR suite is a particularly daunting task for many surgical services managers. CREATING AN OPTIMAL OR schedule requires looking at constraining factors as well as historical data. THIS ARTICLE presents one solution to creating an OR schedule that results in increased use of the OR suite and better profitability.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009870	Operating Room Information Systems	Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of operating room services and facilities.	Information Systems, Operating Room
D009873	Operating Rooms	Facilities equipped for performing surgery.	Operating Room,Room, Operating,Rooms, Operating
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001071	Appointments and Schedules	The different methods of scheduling patient visits, appointment systems, individual or group appointments, waiting times, waiting lists for hospitals, walk-in clinics, etc.	Patient Appointments,Patient Schedules,Schedules, Patient,Appointments,Schedules,Appointment,Appointment, Patient,Appointments, Patient,Patient Appointment,Patient Schedule,Schedule,Schedule, Patient,Schedules and Appointments
D001509	Bed Occupancy	A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.	Bed Occupancies,Occupancies, Bed,Occupancy, Bed
D013514	Surgical Procedures, Operative	Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.).	Surgical Procedures,Ghost Surgery,Operative Procedures,Operative Surgical Procedure,Operative Surgical Procedures,Procedure, Operative Surgical,Procedures, Operative Surgical,Surgery, Ghost,Surgical Procedure, Operative,Operative Procedure,Procedure, Operative,Procedure, Surgical,Procedures, Operative,Procedures, Surgical,Surgical Procedure
D013997	Time Factors	Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.	Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor