130. Optimizing machine scheduling of central sterile services departments in hospitals
Contributed abstract in session FC-5: Healthcare Management /3, stream Regular talks.
Friday, 14:00-15:30Room: Room S6
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Robin Schlembach
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| Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Augsburg | |
| 2. | Jens Brunner
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| Department of Technology, Management, and Economics, Technical University of Denmark |
Abstract
Hospitals face major challenges as they have to reconcile financial constraints with the need to provide optimal patient care. While operating theaters are often the subject of extensive research, their functionality depends on the effectiveness of secondary departments, such as the central sterile services department (CSSD). Despite its critical role in the operational process through the provision of reprocessed medical devices, the CSSD has been relatively little studied in the existing literature. A high volume of instruments that need to be processed and the fact that missing or late medical devices lead to postponements and cancellations of operations and thus high costs and effort make efficient CSSD planning essential. To address this problem, we present a parallel batch scheduling model that optimizes the scheduling of sterilization machines. Our approach aims to improve capacity utilization by minimizing the maximum completion time of all sterilization processes in a day. The model will be applied to a case study of a German CSSD of a maximum care hospital with up to 380 instrument sets per day.
Keywords
- Healthcare management
- Process optimisation
- Operating room planning and scheduling
Status: accepted
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