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Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation

Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation

Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos Silva, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, Thais Spiegel
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522532262|ISBN10: 1522532269|EISBN13: 9781522532279
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3226-2.ch006
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Silva, Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos, et al. "Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation." Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Improved Business Processes, edited by Maryam Ebrahimi, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 140-155. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3226-2.ch006

APA

Silva, A. C., Assad, D. B., & Spiegel, T. (2018). Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation. In M. Ebrahimi (Ed.), Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Improved Business Processes (pp. 140-155). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3226-2.ch006

Chicago

Silva, Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, and Thais Spiegel. "Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation." In Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Improved Business Processes, edited by Maryam Ebrahimi, 140-155. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3226-2.ch006

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Abstract

The operations management is a multidisciplinary field that investigates, for instance, the design, management and processes improvement focused on the development, production, distribution and delivery of products and services, encompassing activities such as the implementation of policies, making quota decisions, identification and problem solving, response to uncertainty, among others. Regarding the resources dimensioning in hospitals, the Brazilian scenario is limited to legislative instruments that assume a prior and added sizing. This chapter uses a discrete event simulation tool to set the amount of operation rooms needed for patient care in an emergency department, so that emergency patients have guaranteed compliance, minimizing the cancellation of elective surgeries because of this type of demand. As a result, it was found that the minimum amount established by normative instruments was not appropriate to the specific requirements of the organization.

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