Scheduling office assigns start time and room for case and places case on schedule. At this point a default case duration is evaluated by the scheduling office, to see if the value is considered excessively short or excessively long.

Predictive model calculates new duration for case at 3AM the day before surgery, and the predictions are made available on a SecureShare-site.

Scheduling office assigns start time and room for case and places case on schedule. At this point a default case duration is evaluated by the scheduling office, to see if the value is considered excessively short or excessively long. Depending on the assessment, the scheduling office will either keep the default value, use the value that the surgeon placed in the notes (if available), or the scheduling office provides their own estimation.

All Gynecology (GYN) and Colorectal (CRS) Surgeons at MSKCC will be included. To test the hypothesis that the developed surgical case duration prediction model compared to the current process of estimating surgical case durations, will show improved prediction accuracy, measured by mean absolute error.