Increasing operating room productivity by duration categories and a newsvendor model

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-92

  Lehtonen, Juha Matti ^a   Torkki, Paulus ^b   Peltokorpi, Antti ^b   Moilanen, Teemu ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Hospital for Joint Replacement ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Newsvendor model; Operating room management; Productivity; Productivity rate; Scheduling; Surgery; Surgical services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPERATING ROOMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84873438849     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526861311297307     Document Type: Article

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