This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on operating room planning and
scheduling problems. Aiming to give a comprehensive classification on the studied …

This paper presents a review of the literature on personnel scheduling problems. Firstly, we
discuss the classification methods in former review papers. Secondly, we evaluate the …

This paper provides a review of recent operational research on operating room planning
and scheduling. We evaluate the literature on multiple fields that are related to either the …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since
a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main …

In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

This paper reviews the general problem of surgical scheduling. We organize the literature
based on the time frame or planning horizon of the schedule into six categories: capacity …

The objective of this paper is to design a weekly surgery schedule in an operating theatre
where time blocks are reserved for surgeons rather than specialities. Both operating rooms …

The efficient and effective management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a
hospital's environment comprising a vast share of the operational costs. The adopted nurse …