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Surgical Block Scheduling Optimizer glossary
Terms used in Surgical Block Scheduling Optimizer and its documentation.
Applies to Surgical Block Scheduling Optimizer as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
Terms used in Surgical Block Scheduling Optimizer and its documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Block | Operating room time allocated in advance to a surgeon or service. |
| Block owner | The surgeon or service that holds a block. |
| Block utilization | How much of a block was used, calculated with the definition your committee agrees. |
| Release | Giving up unneeded block time so others can book it. |
| Release deadline | The point before the block date by which a service must release unused time. |
| Automatic release | Release of unbooked time at the deadline under your policy. |
| Open time | Operating room time not allocated to a block, or released, that any surgeon can request. |
| Duration estimate | The expected case length for a surgeon and procedure, based on your own completed cases. |
| Turnover | Time between one patient leaving a room and the next entering. |
| Room fit | How booked cases, estimates and turnover fit into a room's staffed hours. |
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