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Marques, I. & M.E. Captivo (2015). Scheduling elective surgeries in a block scheduling strategy. Improving healthcare: new challenges, new approaches.

I. M. Proença and M. E. Captivo,  "Scheduling elective surgeries in a block scheduling strategy", in Improving healthcare: new challenges, new approaches, Coimbra, 2015

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	author = "Marques, I. and M.E. Captivo",
	title = "Scheduling elective surgeries in a block scheduling strategy",
	year = "2015",
	howpublished = "Outro",
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}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Scheduling elective surgeries in a block scheduling strategy
T2  - Improving healthcare: new challenges, new approaches
AU  - Marques, I.
AU  - M.E. Captivo
PY  - 2015
CY  - Coimbra
AB  - An adequate access to healthcare is one of the strategic axes considered in the Portuguese National Health Plan. The health care units should seek to ensure the best performance and adequacy of care which maximize the use of resources, quality, equity and access. Concerning access to surgical care, according to the Summarized Report on Elective Surgical Activity, the demand for surgical care in Portugal tends to grow continuously ever since a systematic measurement was introduced. Growth, from the first half of 2010 versus the first half of 2006, is of 41.5%. In the public sector in Portugal, the waiting list for surgery increased 11.2% in December 2011 when compared to the same period of the previous year while the median waiting time of users who are waiting for a surgery presented a value of 3.33 months in the second half of 2011. In view of these figures, hospitals are forced to make the most appropriate use of available resources in order to provide timely care to surgical requests. The System for Management of Patients Waiting for Surgery (SIGIC) defined the goal of 90.4% to the percentage of surgical patients operated in a timely manner according to the due date defined by the priority level. The public hospital considered in this work attained 89.4% and thus it has not achieved this goal. Nevertheless, the hospital presents an average waiting time of 118 days below the target fixed on 120 days. This hospital has a central operating theatre with a large number of operating rooms shared by several specialties. The operating room time is pre-allocated to specialties (use of a master surgery schedule) and each specialty schedules surgeries to its allocated time block and day (block scheduling strategy). Based on the data available, this work proposes a new method to help the hospital scheduling elective surgeries in order to optimize the use of the available surgical resources. The results obtained are analyzed and compared with the results obtained with the procedure previously used by the hospital.
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