{"title":"Effective block scheduling strategies.","authors":"D L Geuder, S K Banschbach","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The scheduling of surgery provides opportunities to orchestrate a wide variety of resources that have a significant impact on both hospitals, physicians, and patients. This article presents the successful development and implementation of a block scheduling system in a large operating room setting. Strategies include process redesign, automation, and physician empowerment to achieve outcomes of improved efficiency, customer satisfaction and physician self-governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79476,"journal":{"name":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","volume":"1 3","pages":"134-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The scheduling of surgery provides opportunities to orchestrate a wide variety of resources that have a significant impact on both hospitals, physicians, and patients. This article presents the successful development and implementation of a block scheduling system in a large operating room setting. Strategies include process redesign, automation, and physician empowerment to achieve outcomes of improved efficiency, customer satisfaction and physician self-governance.