OPEN SCHEDULING VS. BLOCK SCHEDULING  A STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL, HYDERABAD

Dr. N. Lakshmi Bhaskar; Dr. S. Naga Satish Kumar; Dr.P. Rakesh Prabhu; Dr.K.T. Reddy

Volume : IV, Issue : VII, July - 2015

OPEN SCHEDULING VS. BLOCK SCHEDULING A STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL, HYDERABAD

Dr. N. Lakshmi Bhaskar, Dr. S. Naga Satish Kumar, Dr. P. Rakesh Prabhu, Dr. K. T. Reddy

Abstract :

Scheduling is a very common problem in managing effective utilization of Operation Theatres. Many studies have been done to find the best schedule which is able to meet the patient�s satisfaction and minimize the total cost of the operating theatre. The present study is aimed to understand the difference in utilization of operation theatre due to open or blocked scheduling carried out in two OTs of Nizam�s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India, from August 2011 to November 2011. It was observed that the utilization of OT–3 (79%) is almost near to average utilization of all theatres (72%), where as there is marked decrease in utilization of IDOT (46%) with p–value less than 0.0001, inferring that there was difference in utilization of both the theatres which had different type of scheduling.