Evaluating alternative surgery plans with discrete-event simulation model

Author

Hongying Fei ; Meskens, N. ; El-Darzi, E.

Author_Institution

Louvain Sch. of Manage., Catholic Univ. of Mons, Mons, Belgium

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Simulation modeling has become a well-established tool to aid healthcare decision makers in evaluating alternative system design in order to improve hospital performances. A simulation model is developed in this study to evaluate an alternative planning strategy for an operating theatre of a medium-size university hospital in Belgium. Real data are used in this model to derive the simulation parameters and are collected from a one-year observation period where a ??modified block scheduling?? strategy is currently implemented. This paper is concluded with some suggestions for improving the hospital service efficiency.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; health care; hospitals; medical administrative data processing; surgery; Belgium; block scheduling; discrete event simulation model; evaluating alternative surgery plans; healthcare decision makers; hospital performance improvement; hospital service efficiency; medium-size university hospital; modified block scheduling; planning strategy; Ambulatory surgery; Birds; Discrete event simulation; Hospitals; Medical services; Medical treatment; Performance evaluation; Scheduling; Software packages; Strategic planning; discrete-event simulation model; operating theatre; planning strategy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Health Care Management (WHCM), 2010 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4997-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4998-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WHCM.2010.5441241

Filename

5441241