作者：Ozen, Asli; Marmor, Yariv; Rohleder, Thomas; Balasubramanian, Hari; Huddleston, Jeanne; Huddleston, Paul
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Braude Academic College of Engineering; Mayo Clinic
摘要：Spine surgeries tend to be lengthy (mean time of 4 hours) and highly variable (with some surgeries lasting 18 hours or more). This variability along with patient preferences driving scheduling decisions resulted in both low operating room (OR) utilization and significant overtime for surgical teams at Mayo Clinic. In this paper we discuss the development of an improved scheduling approach for spine surgeries over a rolling planning horizon. First, data mining and statistical analysis was perfo...
