A Comparison Study on Operation Room Scheduling Rules by Using Goal Programming

Operation room is an important medical service department in hospital, and its operations have an important influence on medical service quality. In order to decrease the overwork and balance the workload, the operation room scheduling rules are selected as the research objects and an operation room scheduling model is built with the help of the goal programming. With the catheter rooms data from a cardiovascular hospital in Tianjin and Simio software for system simulation, the normal operating room scheduling rules are compared and analyzed. Results show that the shortest queue method can balance operation room work time, shorten overtime, and improve staff satisfaction.