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The inpatient department of CREGOT Ophthalmology Hospital has seventy-nine hospital beds. Treatment and surgery services for cataract, retinal diseases, glaucoma and ocular trauma are offered. Related Information from 13 July 2008 to 11 September 2008 is given in the appendix.
The cataract surgery is relatively easy, and there is no emergency. According to current schedule, the cataract surgery service is on Monday and Wednesday. Surgery preparation needs one or two days. Patients who have two-eye cataract account for 60% of the whole number of cataract patients. The first eye surgery is on Monday, and the second is on Wednesday for them.
The ocular traumas patients usually need emergency treatment. They are hospitalized as soon as possible. The surgery will be on the following day when they are hospitalized.
For retinal diseases and glaucoma patients, usually, preparation needs two or three days before surgery when they are hospitalized, and their postoperative period will be longer. Generally, this type of surgery is not on Monday or Wednesday.
Considering the workload of oculists, CREGOT does not put the cataract surgery and other surgery (except for an emergency treatment) on the same day. The patients(except for emergency treatment) queue up for beds available under the FCFS(First Come, First Serve) principle, while the queue becomes longer and longer. CREGOT hope you can help him to improve the utilization of their resources with mathematical modeling.
Your tasks are as follows:
Task 1: To developed a reasonable evaluation index system to evaluate the merits and demerits of the beds assignment model.
Task 2: Build a model to determine which patients should be hospitalized based on the number of patients who will be discharged on the following day, and evaluate your model using the index system developed in Task 1.
Task 3: Outpatients surely want to know when they can be hospitalized as early as possible. Can you give them a prediction of hospitalized interval based on the statistic data in the appendix?
Task 4: If the inpatient department does not arrange surgery on Saturday and Sunday, redo Task 2. Discuss whether the schedule should be changed.
Task 5: In order to simplify the scheme, it is suggested that the beds of various types of patients should be assigned by using fixed proportion principle. Develop a fixed proportion principle model to minimize the average time of stay in this system (include waiting time for beds available and hospital stays).
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