Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad

Government hospitals in Iraq have long been suffering from overcrowded patients, and shortages of doctors and nurses. Unstable environment with occurrences of random warrelated incidents has put further burden on hospitals’ limited resources particularly the surgical department. Large number of pre-...

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Main Author:	Hasan Ali, Hussein
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2018
Subjects:	HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. RA410.55 Hospital Care.
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/1/s95988_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/2/s95988_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/3/s95988_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.95452022-06-26T01:20:39Z Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad 2018 Hasan Ali, Hussein Lamsali, Hendrik Othman, Siti Norezam School of Technology Management & Logistics School of Technology Management & Logistics HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment RA410.55 Hospital Care. Government hospitals in Iraq have long been suffering from overcrowded patients, and shortages of doctors and nurses. Unstable environment with occurrences of random warrelated incidents has put further burden on hospitals’ limited resources particularly the surgical department. Large number of pre-scheduled elective surgeries has occasionally been interrupted by the incoming war-related incidents patients. This in turn has put tremendous pressure on the hospital management to maximize utilization of its operating rooms’ resources including surgeons and nurses, whilst simultaneously minimizing idle time. Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad is presently experiencing these issues. Therefore, this study has been undertaken with the aims to identify efficient scheduling approach for elective surgeries for operating rooms in Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital while considering interruptions from non-elective surgery (incoming patients from warrelated incidents). Specifically, this study intends to develop a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to maximize the utilizations of operating rooms, availability of surgeons as well as to minimize potential idle time. A meta-heuristic approach in the form of a Tabu Search is then employed to generate an acceptable solution and utilizing time more efficiently. Real data was collected from the hospital in the form of interviews, observations and secondary reports. The initial MILP computational results show that the proposed model has successfully produced optimal solutions by improving the utilization of operating rooms. Notwithstanding, the difficulty to produce results in reasonable time for larger problem instances has led to the application of a more efficient meta-heuristic approach. The Tabu Search results indicated better performance of the model with good quality solutions in fewer computation times. The finding is important as it determines the feasibility of the proposed model and its potential benefit to all relevant stakeholders. 2018 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/1/s95988_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/2/s95988_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/3/s95988_references.docx text eng public other doctoral Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
collection	UUM ETD
language	eng eng eng
advisor	Lamsali, Hendrik Othman, Siti Norezam
topic	HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. RA410.55 Hospital Care.
spellingShingle	HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. RA410.55 Hospital Care. Hasan Ali, Hussein Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
description	Government hospitals in Iraq have long been suffering from overcrowded patients, and shortages of doctors and nurses. Unstable environment with occurrences of random warrelated incidents has put further burden on hospitals’ limited resources particularly the surgical department. Large number of pre-scheduled elective surgeries has occasionally been interrupted by the incoming war-related incidents patients. This in turn has put tremendous pressure on the hospital management to maximize utilization of its operating rooms’ resources including surgeons and nurses, whilst simultaneously minimizing idle time. Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad is presently experiencing these issues. Therefore, this study has been undertaken with the aims to identify efficient scheduling approach for elective surgeries for operating rooms in Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital while considering interruptions from non-elective surgery (incoming patients from warrelated incidents). Specifically, this study intends to develop a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to maximize the utilizations of operating rooms, availability of surgeons as well as to minimize potential idle time. A meta-heuristic approach in the form of a Tabu Search is then employed to generate an acceptable solution and utilizing time more efficiently. Real data was collected from the hospital in the form of interviews, observations and secondary reports. The initial MILP computational results show that the proposed model has successfully produced optimal solutions by improving the utilization of operating rooms. Notwithstanding, the difficulty to produce results in reasonable time for larger problem instances has led to the application of a more efficient meta-heuristic approach. The Tabu Search results indicated better performance of the model with good quality solutions in fewer computation times. The finding is important as it determines the feasibility of the proposed model and its potential benefit to all relevant stakeholders.
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author	Hasan Ali, Hussein
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title	Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
title_short	Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
title_full	Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
title_fullStr	Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
title_full_unstemmed	Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad
title_sort	determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: an analysis on al-shahid ghazi al-hariri hospital in baghdad
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	School of Technology Management & Logistics
publishDate	2018
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/1/s95988_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/2/s95988_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9545/3/s95988_references.docx
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Determining efficient scheduling approach of doctors for operating rooms: An analysis on Al-Shahid Ghazi Al-Hariri hospital in Baghdad

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