Surgical Services Management
(last updated 06/10/08)

2008

Belien J, Demeulemeester E. A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 189:652-668, 2008

Fei H, Chu C, Meskens N, Artiba A. Solving surgical cases assignment problem by a branch-and-price approach. International Journal of Production Economics 112:96-108, 2008

Hans E, Wullink G, van Houdenhoven M, Kazemier G. Robust surgery loading. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1038-1050, 2008

Lamiri M, Xie XL, Dolgui A, Grimaud F. A stochastic model for operating room planning with elective and emergency demand for surgery. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1026-1037, 2008

Masursky D, Dexter F, O’Leary CE, Applegeet C, Nussmeier NA. Long-term forecasting of anesthesia workload in operating rooms from changes in a hospital’s local population can be inaccurate. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:1223-1231, 2008 [PDF]

Nagy PG, Konewko R, Warnock M, Bernstein W, Seagull J, Xiao Y, George I, Park A. Novel, web-based, information-exploration approach for improving operating room logistics and system processes. Surgical Innovation 15:7-16, 2008

Pham DN, Klinkert A. Surgical case scheduling as a generalized job shop scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1011-1025, 2008

Sobolev B, Harel D, Vasilakis C, Levy A. Using the statecharts paradigm for simulation of patient flow in surgical care. Health Care Management Science 11: 79-86, 2008

Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Tactical increases in operating room block time for capacity planning should not be based on utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:215-226, 2008  [PDF]  

van Oostrum JM, van Houdenhoven M, Hurink JL, Hans EW, Wullink G, Kazemier G. A master surgical scheduling approach for cyclic scheduling in operating room departments. OR Spectrum 30: 355-374, 2008

2007

Denton B, Viapiano J, Vogl A. Optimization of surgery sequencing and scheduling decisions under uncertainty. Health Care Management Science 10:13-24, 2007

Fairbanks CB. Using six sigma and lean methodologies to improve OR throughput. AORN Journal 86:73-82, 2007

Gupta D. Surgical suites’ operations management. Production and Operations Management 16:689-700, 2007

Lehtonen JM, Kujala J, Kouri J, Hippelainen M. Cardiac surgery productivity and throughput improvements. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 20:40-52, 2007

McGowan JE, Truwit JD, Cipriano P, Howell RE, VanBree M, Garson A Jr, Hanks JB. Operating room efficiency and hospital capacity: factors affecting operating room use during maximum hospital census. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 204:865-872, 2007

O’Neill L, Dexter F. Tactical increases in operating room block time based on financial data and market growth estimates from data envelopment analysis. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:355-368, 2007  [PDF]

Oudhoff JP, Timmermans DR, Rietberg M, Knol DL, Van der Wal G. The acceptability of waiting times for elective general surgery and the appropriateness of prioritising patients. BMC Health Services Research 7(1):32, 2007

Santibáñez P, Begen M, Atkins D. Surgical block scheduling in a system of hospitals: an application to resource and wait list management in a British Columbia health authority. Health Care Management Science 10:269-282, 2007

Stahl JE, Goldman JM, Rattner DW, Gazelle GS. Adapting to a new system of surgical technologies and perioperative processes among clinicians. Journal of Surgical Research 139:61-67, 2007

Testi A, Tanfani E, Torre G. A three-phase approach for operating theatre schedules. Health Care Management Science 10:163-172, 2007

Van Houdenhoven M, Hans EW, Klein J, Wullink G, Kazemier G. A norm utilisation for scarce hospital resources: evidence from operating rooms in a Dutch university hospital. Journal of Medical Systems 31:231-236, 2007

Van Houdenhoven M, van Oostrum JM, Hans EW, Wullink G, Kazemier G. Improving operating room efficiency by applying bin-packing and portfolio techniques to surgical case scheduling. Anesthesia & Analgesia 105:707-714, 2007

Wilson CT, Woloshin S, Schwartz LM. Choosing where to have major surgery: who makes the decision? Archives of Surgery 142:242-246, 2007
 

2006

Basson MD, Butler T. Evaluation of operating room suite efficiency in the Veterans Health Administration system by using data-envelopment analysis. American Journal of Surgery 192:649-656, 2006

Beliën J, Demeulemeester EL. Building cyclic master surgery schedules with leveled resulting bed occupancy. European Journal of Operational Research 176:1185-1204, 2006

Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B. Visualizing the demand for various resources as a function of the master surgery schedule: a case study. Journal of Medical Systems 30:343-350, 2006

Dexter F, Weih LS, Gustafson RK, Stegura LF, Oldenkamp MJ, Wachtel RE. Observational study of operating room times for knee and hip replacement surgery at nine US community hospitals. Health Care Management Science 9:325-339, 2006

Hu PF, Xiao Y, Ho D, Mackenzie CF, Hu H, Voigt R, Martz D. Advanced visualization platform for surgical operating room coordination: distributed video board system. Surgical Innovation 13:129-135, 2006

Huang F, Liu SC, Shih SM, Tao YH, Wu JY, Jeng SY, Chang P. A web-based short messaging service system to enhance family-centered surgical patient care. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 122:163-166, 2006

Mariano ER, Chu LF, Ramamoorthy C, Macario A. Scheduling elective pediatric procedures that require anesthesia: the perspective of parents. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1426-1431, 2006

McIntosh C, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1499-1516, 2006  [PDF]

Gable WH, Pappas TN, Jacobs DO, Cutler DA, Kuo PC. Productivity measures associated with a patient access initiative. Annals of Surgery 243:604-611, 2006

Jebali A, Alouane ABH, Ladet P. Operating rooms scheduling. International Journal of Production Economics 99:52-62, 2006

Macario A. Are your hospital operating rooms "efficient"?: a scoring system with eight performance indicators. Anesthesiology 105:237-240, 2006

Siciliani L. A dynamic model of supply of elective surgery in the presence of waiting times and waiting lists. Journal of Health Economics 25:891-907, 2006

Sokal SM, Craft DL, Chang Y, Sandberg WS, Berger DL. Maximizing operating room and recovery room capacity in an era of constrained resources. Archives of Surgery 141:389-395, 2006
 

2005

Bowers J, Mould G. Ambulatory care and orthopaedic capacity planning. Health Care Management Science 8:41-47, 2005

Calichman MV. Creating an optimal operating room schedule. AORN Journal 81:580-588, 2005

Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wachtel RE. Tactical decision making for selective expansion of operating room resources incorporating financial criteria and uncertainty in sub-specialties’ future workloads. Anesthesia & Analgesia 100:1425-1432, 2005  [PDF]

Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Sohn MW, Ledolter J, Dexter EU, Macario A. Quantifying effect of a hospital’s caseload for a surgical specialty on that of another hospital using market segments including procedure, payer, and locations of patients’ residences. Health Care Management Science 8:121-131, 2005

Mulholland MW, Abrahamse P, Bahl V. Linear programming to optimize performance in a department of surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 200:861-868, 2005

O’Neill L, Dexter F. Methods for understanding super-efficient data envelopment analysis results with an application to hospital inpatient surgery. Health Care Management Science 8:291-298, 2005

Siciliani L. Does more choice reduce waiting times? Health Economics 14:17-23, 2005

Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, Birkmeyer JD. How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey. BMJ 331:821, 2005

Vissers JMH, Adan JBF, Bekkers JA. Patient mix optimization in cardiothoracic surgery planning: a case study. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 16:281-304, 2005

Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Lubarsky DA. Financial implications of a hospital's specialization in rare physiologically complex surgical procedures. Anesthesiology 103:161-167, 2005  [PDF]
 

2004

De Deyne C, Heylen R. Introduction of an operating room information management system improved overall operating room efficiency. Studies in Health Technology & Informatics 110:61-67, 2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Review of operational decision making before the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency. Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés 38:603-630, 2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y. Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 101:1444-1453, 2004  [PDF]

Dexter F, Lubarsky DA. Using length of stay data from a hospital to evaluate whether limiting elective surgery at the hospital is an inappropriate decision. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 16:421-425, 2004

Dexter F, Macario A. When to release allocated operating room time to increase operating room efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 98:758-762, 2004  [PDF]

Dexter F, O’Neill L. Data envelopment analysis to determine by how much hospitals can increase elective inpatient surgical workload for each specialty. Anesthesia & Analgesia 99:1492-1500, 2004  [PDF]

McManus ML, Long MC, Cooper A, Litvak E. Queuing theory accurately models the need for critical care resources. Anesthesiology 100:1271-1276, 2004

O'Neill L, Dexter F. Market capture of inpatient perioperative services using data envelopment analysis. Health Care Management Science 7:263-273, 2004

Seagull FJ, Xiao Y, Plasters C. Information accuracy and sampling effort: a field study of surgical scheduling coordination. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A. 34:764-771, 2004
 

2003

Abouleish AE, Hensley SL, Zornow MH, Prough DS. Inclusion of turnover time does not influence identification of surgical services that over- and underutilize allocated block time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:813-818, 2003

Chaabane S, Guinet A, Smolski N, Guiraud M, Luquet B, Marcon E, Viale JP. The industrial management and the management of surgical units. Annales Francaises d Anesthesie et de Reanimation 22:904-908, 2003

Dexter F, Epstein R. Optimizing second shift OR staffing. AORN Journal 77:825-830, 2003

Dexter F, Ledolter H. Managing risk and expected financial return from selective expansion of operating room capacity. Mean-variance analysis of a hospital’s portfolio of surgeons. Anesthesia & Analgesia 97:190-195, 2003  [PDF]

Dexter F, Traub RD, Macario A. How to release allocated operating room time to increase efficiency - Predicting which surgical service will have the most under-utilized operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:507-512, 2003  [PDF]

Dexter F, Traub RD, Macario A, Lubarsky DA. Operating room utilization alone is not an accurate metric for the allocation of operating room block time to individual surgeons with low caseloads. Anesthesiology 98:1243-1249, 2003  [PDF]

Dexter F, Smith TC, Tatman DJ, Macario A. Physicians’ perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet-based survey of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors’ (AACD) members. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 15:206-210, 2003

Dzoljic M, Zimmerman M, Legemate D, Klazinga NS. Reduced nursing work time and surgical productivity and economics. Anesthesia and Analgesia 97:1127-1132, 2003

Guinet A, Chaabane S. Operating theatre planning. International Journal of Production Economics 85:69-81, 2003

Kuo PC, Schroeder RA, Mahaffey S, Bollinger RR. Optimization of operating room allocation using linear programming techniques. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 197:889-895, 2003

Lebowitz P. Schedule the short procedure first to improve OR efficiency. AORN Journal 78:651-658, 2003

Marcon E, Kharraja S, Simonnet G. The operating theatre planning by the follow-up of the risk of no realization. International Journal of Production Economics 85:83-90, 2003

McLeod H, Ham C, Kipping R. Booking patients for hospital admissions: evaluation of a pilot programme for day cases. BMJ 327:1147-1152, 2003

McManus ML, Long MC, Cooper A, Mandell J, Berwick DM, Pagano M, Litvak E. Variability in surgical caseload and access to intensive care services. Anesthesiology 98:1491-1496, 2003

Ogulata SN, Erol R. A hierarchical multiple criteria mathematical programming approach for scheduling general surgery operations in large hospitals. Journal of Medical Systems 27:259-270, 2003

Tyler DC, Pasquariello CA, Chen CH. Determining optimum operating room utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:1114-1121, 2003

Weinbroum AA. Efficiency of the operating room suite. The American Journal of Surgery 185:244-250, 2003
 

2002

Adan JBF, Vissers JMH. Patient mix optimisation in hospital admission planning: a case study. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 22:445-461, 2002

Blake JT, Carter MW. A goal programming approach to strategic resource allocation in acute care hospitals. European Journal of Operational Research 140:541-561, 2002

Blake JT, Dexter F, Donald J. Operating room managers’ use of integer programming for assigning allocated block time to surgical groups: a case study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:143-148, 2002  [PDF]

Coley KC, Williams BA, DaPos SV, Chen C, Smith RB. Retrospective evaluation of unanticipated admissions and readmissions after same day surgery and associated costs. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 14:349-353, 2002

Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Sloan B, Chung P, Lubarsky DA. Use of linear programming to estimate impact of changes in a hospital’s operating room time allocation on perioperative variable costs. Anesthesiology 96:718-724, 2002  [PDF]

Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA. Calculating a potential increase in hospital margin for elective surgery by changing operating room time allocations or increasing nursing staffing to permit completion of more cases: a case study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:138-142, 2002  [PDF]

Dexter F, Traub RD. How to schedule elective surgical cases into specific operating rooms to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:933-942, 2002  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A. Changing allocations of operating room time from a system based on historical utilization to one where the aim is to schedule as many surgical cases as possible. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:1272-1279, 2002  [PDF]

Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Blake JT. Sampling error can significantly affect measured hospital financial performance of surgeons and resulting operating room time allocations. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:184-188, 2002

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify operating room staffing solutions to reduce labor costs and increase productivity. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:640-643, 2002  [PDF]

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Uncertainty in knowing the operating rooms in which cases were performed has little effect on operating room allocations or efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:1726-1730, 2002  [PDF]

Everett JE. A decision support simulation model for the management of elective surgery waiting system. Health Care Management Science 5:89-95, 2002

Gallivan S, Utley M, Treasure T, Valencia O. Booked inpatient admission and hospital capacity: mathematical modelling study. British Medical Journal 324:280-282, 2002

Harper PR. A framework for operational modeling of hospital resources. Health Care Management Science 5:167-173, 2002

Junger A, Benson M, Quinzio L, Michel A, Sciuk G, Brammen D, Marquardt K, Hempelmann G. An Anesthesia Information Management System as a tool for controlling resource management of operating rooms. Methods of Information in Medicine 41:81-85, 2002

Lovejoy WS, Li Y. Hospital operating room capacity expansion. Management Science 48:1369-1387, 2002

Sieber TJ, Leibundgut DL. Operating room management and strategies in Switzerland: results of a survey. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 19:415-423, 2002
 

2001

Dexter F, Traub RD, Lebowitz P. Scheduling a delay between different surgeons’ cases in the same operating room on the same day using upper prediction bounds for case durations. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:943-946, 2001

Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA. Impact on revenue of increasing patient volume at surgical suites with relatively high operating room utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:1215-1221, 2001

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marsh HM. Statistical analysis of weekday operating room anesthesia group staffing at nine independently managed surgical suites. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:1493-1498, 2001

Macario A, Dexter F, Traub RD. Hospital profitability per hour of operating room time can vary among surgeons. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:669-675, 2001

Rouse A, Wilson R, Stevens A. If the NHS introduced a ’50 procedures a year’ policy, what proportion of consultant forms would be affected? Journal of Public Health Medicine 23:65-68, 2001

Shelver SR, Winston L. Improving surgical on-time starts through common goals. AORN Journal 74(4):506-513, 2001
 

2000

Bardram JE. Temporal coordination - on time and coordination of collaborative activities at a surgical department. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 9:157-187, 2000

Dexter F, Traub RD. Sequencing cases in operating rooms - predicting whether one surgical case will last longer than another. Anesthesia & Analgesia 90:975-979, 2000  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A, O’Neill L. Scheduling surgical cases into overflow block time - computer simulation of the effects of scheduling strategies on operating room labor costs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 90:980-986, 2000  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Enterprise-wide patient scheduling information systems to coordinate surgical clinic and operating room scheduling can impair operating room efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:617-626, 2000  [PDF]

Dexter F, Traub RD. Lack of systematic month-to-month variation over one year periods in ambulatory surgery caseload - application to anesthesia staffing. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:1426-1430, 2000  [PDF]

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Economic analysis of linking operating room scheduling and hospital material management information systems for just in time inventory control. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:337-343, 2000  [PDF]

Kim SC, Horowitz I, Young KK, Buckley TA. Flexible bed allocation and performance in the intensive care unit. Journal of Operations Management 18:427-443, 2000

Ozkarahan I. Allocation of surgeries to operating rooms by goal programming. Journal of Medical Systems 2000; 24:339-378

Spangler WE, Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH.  Computer-based operational and decision support for surgical services. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 2:15-36, 1999
 

1999

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD, Hopwood M, Lubarsky DA. An operating room scheduling strategy to maximize the use of operating room block time - Computer simulation of patient scheduling and survey of patients’ preferences for surgical waiting time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 89:7-20, 1999  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA, Burns DD. Statistical method to evaluate management strategies to decrease variability in operating room utilization - Application of linear statistical modeling and Monte-Carlo simulation to operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:262-274, 1999  [PDF]

Dexter F, Macario A, Qian F, Traub RD. Forecasting surgical groups’ total hours of elective cases for allocation of block time - Application of time series analysis to operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:1501-1508, 1999  [PDF]

Lapierre SD, Batson C, McCaskey S. Improving on-time performance in health care organizations: a case study. Health Care Management Science 2:27-34, 1999

Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH. Surgical subspecialty block utilization and capacity planning. A minimal cost analysis model. Anesthesiology 90:1176-1185, 1999
 

1998

Vitez TS, Macario A. Setting performance standards for an anesthesia department. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 10:166-175, 1998
 

1997

Rotondi AJ, Brindis C, Cantees KK, DeRiso BM, Ilkin HM, Palmer JS, Gunnerson HB, Watkins WD. Benchmarking the perioperative process. I. Patient routing systems: a method for continual improvement of patient flow and resource utilization. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9:159-167, 1997

Rosenblatt WH, Chavez A, Tenney D, Silverman DG. Assessment of the economic impact of an overage reduction program in the operating room. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9:478-81, 1997

Sier D, Tobin P, McGurk C. Scheduling surgical procedures. Journal of the Operational Research Society 48:884-891, 1997

Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH, Bashein G. Surgical suite utilization and capacity planning: a minimal cost analysis model. Journal of Medical Systems 21:309-322, 1997
 

1996

Donham RT, Mazzei WJ, Jones RL. Procedural times glossary. American Journal of Anesthesiology 23:5 Suppl. 4-12, 1996

Gerchak Y, Gupta D, Henig M. Reservation planning for elective surgery under uncertain demand for emergency surgery. Management Science 42:321-334, 1996

Truong A, Tessler MJ, Kleiman SJ, Bensimon M. Late operating room starts: experience with an education trial. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 43:1233-1236, 1996
 

1995

Ozkarahan I. Allocation of surgical procedures to operating rooms. Journal of Medical Systems. 19:333-352, 1995
 

1992

Kennedy, MH. Bin-packing, knapsack, and chance-constrained approaches to operating room scheduling [dissertation]. Troy, New York: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, 1992
 

1988

Warnock-Matheron AG, Hannah KJ. Comparative analysis of computer-based operating room information systems: an evaluation research study. Computers in Nursing. 6:147-156, 1988
 

1972

Fairman WL. Scheduling/ resource level decisions in the hospital operating room environment. University of Pittsburgh 1972