title: Managerial Decision-making for Daily Case Allocation Scheduling and the Impact on Perioperative Quality Assurance.
abstract: Allocation scheduling for daily surgical cases is a decision-making process tasked to anesthesiologists and nurse managers in the operating room (OR). This manuscript focuses on three major areas: the classification and principles of allocation scheduling on workdays in China, flexible strategies of operational decision-making given differences in planned versus actual OR allocations, and perioperative quality implications of anesthesia scheduling. Improved quality and optimal decision-making in daily surgical case scheduling is seen with shift supervisor-based scheduling of staff and cases when compared with staff and case scheduling managed by the departmental director or chief resident.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.
authors.forename: Minmin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Nurse, Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.
authors.forename: Zhengli
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.
authors.forename: Xiaojie
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Gurmukh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sahota
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Renyu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Center of Administration Office, Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.
authors.forename: Lihua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yi
keywords: allocation scheduling; chief resident; perioperative period; quality assurance; risk management; shift supervisor