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Improving Operation Rooms and Planning to Reduce Surgery Cancelations and Inpatient Length of Stay

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Operations Management for Social Good (POMS 2018)

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We apply process modeling and simulation to improve surgery planning, through the coordination of operation rooms and intensive care unit (ICU). A case study was carried out in a Brazilian hospital. With the proposed changes, we obtained a 39% reduction in surgery cancelations and a 61% decrease in preoperative length of stay.

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This work was supported by the CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ and PUC-Rio.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Janaina F. Marchesi, Silvio Hamacher & Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira

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Correspondence to Silvio Hamacher .

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Adriana Leiras

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

    Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

  3. Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Irineu de Brito Junior

  4. Universidad de Los Andes (UniAndes), Bogotá, Colombia

    Sebastián Villa

  5. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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Marchesi, J.F., Hamacher, S., Cyrino Oliveira, F.L. (2020). Improving Operation Rooms and Planning to Reduce Surgery Cancelations and Inpatient Length of Stay. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_14

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