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Designing a blueprint schedule to meet access time criteria of priority groups in a preoperative assessment clinic
Doremalen, R.F. van (2022) Designing a blueprint schedule to meet access time criteria of priority groups in a preoperative assessment clinic.
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| Abstract: | The preoperative assessment clinic (PAC) has the goal to check whether the patient is in a good condition to undergo anaesthesia and to fully prepare the patient for surgery. A successful PAC should enable the screening of patients within the right access time such that the surgery will not be delayed. The access time is defined as the time between the surgery request and the PAC appointment. This study aims to design a blueprint schedule with allocated capacity to priority groups to improve the access time to the PAC. We create a capacity allocation method with which we design multiple blueprint schedules (intervention 2). While the focus is on the capacity allocation method, two other interventions are tested, which are: an increase in the screening capacity by one (intervention 1), and the offline planning approach (intervention 3). We use a discrete event simulation to test the performances of the interventions. The results show that allocating capacity to priority groups in combination with the offline planning approach contributes to an increase in the percentage of patients that are screened within the access time criteria. When the patient mix changes, the blueprint schedule can be adapted using the capacity allocation method. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Clients: | St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 31 mathematics, 50 technical science in general, 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management MSc (60029) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89581 |
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