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An Optimized Framework for Surgical Team Selection

Hemant Petwal*, Rinkle Rani

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, 147004, India

* Corresponding Author: Hemant Petwal. Email: email

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Intelligent Decision Support Systems for Complex Healthcare Applications)

Computers, Materials & Continua 2021, 69(2), 2563-2582. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.017548

Abstract

In the healthcare system, a surgical team is a unit of experienced personnel who provide medical care to surgical patients during surgery. Selecting a surgical team is challenging for a multispecialty hospital as the performance of its members affects the efficiency and reliability of the hospital’s patient care. The effectiveness of a surgical team depends not only on its individual members but also on the coordination among them. In this paper, we addressed the challenges of surgical team selection faced by a multispecialty hospital and proposed a decision-making framework for selecting the optimal list of surgical teams for a given patient. The proposed framework focused on improving the existing surgical history management system by arranging surgery-bound patients into optimal subgroups based on similar characteristics and selecting an optimal list of surgical teams for a new surgical patient based on the patient’s subgroups. For this end, two population-based meta-heuristic algorithms for clustering of mixed datasets and multi-objective optimization were proposed. The proposed algorithms were tested using different datasets and benchmark functions. Furthermore, the proposed framework was validated through a case study of a real postoperative surgical dataset obtained from the orthopedic surgery department of a multispecialty hospital in India. The results revealed that the proposed framework was efficient in arranging patients in optimal groups as well as selecting optimal surgical teams for a given patient.

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Petwal, H., Rani, R. (2021). An optimized framework for surgical team selection. Computers, Materials & Continua, 69(2), 2563-2582. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.017548
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Petwal H, Rani R. An optimized framework for surgical team selection. Comput Mater Contin. 2021;69(2):2563-2582 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.017548
IEEE Style
H. Petwal and R. Rani, “An Optimized Framework for Surgical Team Selection,” Comput. Mater. Contin., vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 2563-2582, 2021. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.017548



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