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Operating theatre modelling: integrating social measures

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  • C Van Huele
  • M Vanhoucke

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Hospital resource modelling literature is primarily focussed on productivity and efficiency measures. In this paper, our focus is on the alignment of the most valuable revenue factor, the operating room (OR) with the most valuable cost factor, the staff. When aligning these economic and social decisions, respectively, into one sustainable model, simulation results justify the integration of these factors. This research shows that integrating staff decisions and OR decisions results in better solutions for both entities. A discrete event simulation approach is used as a performance test to evaluate an integrated and an iterative model. Experimental analysis show how our integrated approach can benefit the alignment of the planning of the human resources as well as the planning of the capacity of the OR based on both economic related metrics (lead time, overtime, number of patients rejected) and social related metrics (personnel preferences, aversions, roster quality).

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  • C Van Huele & M Vanhoucke, 2015. "Operating theatre modelling: integrating social measures," Journal of Simulation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(2), pages 121-128, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjsmxx:v:9:y:2015:i:2:p:121-128
    DOI: 10.1057/jos.2014.32
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