Team 16 Duke University Health System - Operating Room Stewardship

Project Abstract
Duke University Health System (DUHS) located in Durham, North Carolina, is one of the top hospitals in the world, caring for 3.5 million outpatients each year. Current operating room utilization rates are low, causing DUHS to lose patient demand and the resulting revenue, losing up to $20,000 per block per day. DUHS does not have a quantitative method to efficiently allocate 400 surgeon schedules to 1340 surgical blocks each month. This project uses data analysis and decision matrices to create standardized stewardship scores for all 400 surgeons and ranks them accordingly. Raw data from the hospital was statistically analyzed to assign a weighted z-score to each surgeon for the nine variables that impact overall block utilization. Each surgeon was assigned three stewardship scores: one based on the data from the entire hospital, one based on the data from their specific department, and one based on the data from their division. The implementation of this project is expected to increase the overall block utilization of the perioperative services sector of Duke University Health by 5%, resulting in an additional $2,500 in revenue per block and 1,325 cases each year.

Members: Deepti Aaron, Elizabeth McCain, Paige Pilewski, Matthew Taylor, Kaitlin Walker
Advisor: Dr. Ran Jin
Client Contact: Deidre Cahill, Lauren Carpenito, Stefani Dubea, Thomas Davis