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Process Optimization Method for Day Ward Based on Bayesian Decision-Tree

Ting Chen¹, Kai Pu², Lanzhen Bian³, Min Rao⁴, Jing Hu⁵, Rugang Lu^1,*, Jinyue Xia⁶

1 Department of Day Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, China
2 Department of Nursing, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, China
3 Department of surgery, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, China
4 Department of rehabilitation, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, 610000, China
5 Department of rehabilitation, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, China
6 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), NY, 10504, USA

* Corresponding Author: Rugang Lu. Email:

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing 2022, 32(1), 513-523. https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2022.022510

Received 10 August 2021; Accepted 10 September 2021; Issue published 26 October 2021

Abstract

The day surgery management mode is mainly decentralized management, with clinical departments as the unit, and with reference to the experience of inter project operation management in benchmark hospitals, the empirical management is implemented. With the development of day surgery, the extensive decentralized management mode has been unable to meet the needs of the current day surgery development situation. At first, the paper carefully analyzes the existing problems in the day surgery process in the day ward of the Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. And then, the concerns of doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and other hospital staff in day ward, children and their parents are considered. Based on Bayesian decision-making theory, this paper optimizes the pre-admission evaluation of sick children and hospitalization process for day surgery in Nanjing Children’s Hospital. Moreover, the specific optimization process is designed. After the optimizations, it can be seen that the time consumption of each step of the hospitalization process in day surgery is reduced. Thus, the hospital stay of sick children are significantly reduced, and the operation cost is reduced. In addition, the first preoperative preparation time and the average time of receiving children were reduced in day ward. The satisfaction of children’s parents was significantly improved.

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