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Anaesthetist Rostering Mobile Application for Hospital

Canselor Tuanku Muhriz

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Norizal Abdullah *, Masri Ayob , Raja Nur Natasha Raja Ahmad Anuar
a Data Mining and Optimization Lab, Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT), Faculty of Information Science and
Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
b Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi Selangor, Malaysia
*Corresponding Author Email: norizal.abdullah23@gmail.com

Abstract

Hospital Cancelor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM) is a place that provides health care services to society. A lot of health-related
cases have been referred to HCTM especially at the Surgical Department. In the surgical department, an anaesthetist is a
specialist doctor responsible for providing anaesthesia to the patients before or after the surgery phases. The hospital
manager must ensure that the anaesthetists must always be available during the surgery phases. Rostering anaesthetists is
challenging because it needs to fit with the anaesthetist’s preferences and requests, type of duty, the demand of the
workstation and rostering planning. The process to balance the workload among anaesthetists for job satisfaction is hard
with the manual system. Thus, this work designs and develop a mobile application that can be used to manage the
anaesthetist rostering in HCTM. The mobile application has the functions to allow anaesthetist to make a roster request,
view roster, and can request a swap roster, accept or reject swap roster request. These functions can give more flexibility to
anaesthetist work at their preferred time and day.

Keywords: Anaesthetist Rostering; Hospital; Mobile Application

1. Introduction

All hospital should deliver excellent and fast services to patients. Due to that, hospital managers must ensure
their rostering process can run smoothly and efficiently to avoid the absence of staff on duty and excessive
increase in the hospital workload which can cause physical fatigue in healthcare (Güler & Geçici, 2020). In
Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM), an anaesthetist is an important person who must be available during
the surgery phase in the Surgical Department. Currently, the anaesthetist rostering in HCTM uses manual
systems such as Google Form and Microsoft Excel to collect the requests, set up the roster planning and organize
the roster. This manual system seems unreliable, hard to manage and lead the manual systems inefficient.
Therefore, this work aims to design and develop a mobile application for anaesthetist rostering. The mobile
application must be able to allow an anaesthetist to make a roster request, view roster, and can request a swap
roster, accept or reject swap roster request etc. In the next section, we begin with the literature review and
continue with the methodology for design and develop the anaesthetist rostering mobile application. Next, we
show the result of our development and end it with the conclusion.

2. Literature Review

An anaesthetist is a physician that has many tasks. They are responsible for administering anaesthetic or
sedation during medical procedures (Aghsaei, 2014). Preparing a roster for anaesthetists in a hospital is a
complicated and time-consuming task. A Schedule often called a roster, is a list of employees and associated
information (i.e., location, working times, responsibilities for a given period for a week, month or season)

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