Surgical Suites' Operations Management

Diwakar Gupta

doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00289.x

Surgical Suites' Operations Management

Graduate Program in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

Production and Operations Management 2007

Surgical suites are a key driver of a hospital's costs, revenues, and utilization of postoperative resources such as beds. This article describes some commonly occurring operations management problems faced by the managers of surgical suites. For three of these problems, the article also provides preliminary models and possible solution approaches. Its goal is to identify open challenges to spur further research by the operations management community on an important class of problems that have not received adequate attention in the literature, despite their economic importance.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00289.x
Volume: 16 (6)
Pages: 689-700
Language: en
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