Open AccessDeveloping!an!efficient!scheduling!template!of!a!chemotherapy!treatment!unit:!!A! case!study
Author(s) -
Zubair Ahmed,
Tarek Y. ElMekkawy,
Scott C. Bates
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the australasian medical journal
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1836-1935
DOI - 10.4066/amj.2011.837
Subject(s) - medicine , scheduling (production processes) , unit (ring theory) , intensive care medicine , operations management , mathematics education , mathematics , economics
This study was undertaken to improve the performance of a Chemotherapy Treatment Unit by increasing the throughput and reducing the average patient's waiting time. In order to achieve this objective, a scheduling template has been built. The scheduling template is a simple tool that can be used to schedule patients' arrival to the clinic. A simulation model of this system was built and several scenarios, that target match the arrival pattern of the patients and resources availability, were designed and evaluated. After performing detailed analysis, one scenario provide the best system's performance. A scheduling template has been developed based on this scenario. After implementing the new scheduling template, 22.5% more patients can be served. 1.