TY - JOUR T1 - Do we perform surgical programming well? How can we improve it? JO - Revista Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología (English Edition) T2 - AU - Albareda,J. AU - Clavel,D. AU - Mahulea,C. AU - Blanco,N. AU - Ezquerra,L. AU - Gómez,J. AU - Silva,J.M. SN - 19888856 M3 - 10.1016/j.recote.2017.10.006 DO - 10.1016/j.recote.2017.10.006 UR - https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-revista-espanola-cirugia-ortopedica-traumatologia-429-articulo-do-we-perform-surgical-programming-S1988885617300779 AB - The objective is to establish the duration of our interventions, intermediate times and surgical performance. This will create a virtual waiting list to apply a mathematical programme that performs programming with maximum performance. Material and methodsRetrospective review of 49 surgical sessions obtaining the delay in start time, intermediate time and surgical performance. Retrospective review of 4045 interventions performed in the last 3 years to obtain the average duration of each type of surgery. Creation of a virtual waiting list of 700 patients in order to perform virtual programming through the MIQCP-P until achieving optimal performance. ResultsOur surgical performance with manual programming was 75.9%, ending 22.4% later than 3pm. The performance in the days without suspensions was 78.4%. The delay at start time was 9.7min.The optimum performance was 77.5% with a confidence of finishing before 15h of 80.6%. The waiting list has been scheduled in 254 sessions. DiscussionOur manual surgical performance without suspensions (78.4%) was superior to the optimal (77.5%), generating days finished later than 3pm and suspensions. The possibilities for improvement are to achieve punctuality at the start time and adjust the schedule to the ideal performance.The virtual programming has allowed us to obtain our ideal performance and to establish the number of operating rooms necessary to solve the waiting list created. ConclusionsThe data obtained in virtual mathematical programming are reliable enough to implement this model with guarantees. ER -