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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Leveraging Overtime Hours to Fit an Additional Arthroplasty Surgery Per Day: A Feasibility Study

Khalaf, Georges 30 June 2023 (has links)
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of many hip and knee replacements, creating a backlog of patients on top of an existing long waiting list. To reduce wait lists with no financial burden, we aim to evaluate the possibility of leveraging our previous efficiency-improving work to add an additional case to a typical 4-joint day with no extra cost. To do this, 761 total operation days were analyzed from 2012 to 2019, capturing variables such as case number, success (completion of 4 cases before 3:45pm), and patient out of room time. Linear regression was used on 301 successful days to predict 5th cases, while overtime hours saved were calculated from the remaining unsuccessful days. Different cost distributions were then analyzed for a 77% 4-joint day success rate (our baseline), and a 100% 4-joint day success rate. Our predictions show that increasing performance to a 77% success rate can lead to approximately 35 extra cases per year at our institution, while a 100% success rate can produce 56 extra cases per year. Overall, this shows the extent of resources wasted by overtime costs, and the potential for their use in reducing wait times. Future work can explore optimal staffing procedures to account for these extra cases.

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