The field of surgical scheduling and operating room (OR) optimisation addresses the strategic and operational challenge of matching complex clinical demands with finite perioperative resources. Rising ...

When it comes to operating room capacity management, hospitals and health systems are turning away from outdated methods such as pen and paper and turning to digital tools to streamline scheduling and ...

Reducing the manipulation of operating room (OR) scheduling can improve scheduling accuracy and potentially maximize OR usage, avoid delays, and enhance patient satisfaction, according to a study ...

It is challenging to discuss block allocation and utilization with surgeons, especially when data isn’t reliable and surgeons can take their cases elsewhere. Hospital management and perioperative ...

Our increasingly busy lives are often sustained, at least in theory, by multitasking—rapidly switching attention between tasks rather than doing them truly in parallel or completing them one at a time ...