As the only largest source of revenue and cost in a hospital, the operation room (OR)
scheduling problem is a hot research topic. Nonetheless, an integrated model is the missing …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

The operating room scheduling problem is a popular research topic due to its complexity
and relevance. Previous literature reviews established a useful classification system for …

Operating Room (OR) management has been among the mainstream of hospital
management research, as ORs are commonly considered as one of the most critical and …

In this paper, we consider a two-stage stochastic weekly operating room planning problem
with an exponential number of scenarios. The objective function is to minimize the sum of …

In this paper, we address the need for distributed surgical scheduling across multiple
hospitals and multiple days. We develop an effective ex-ante distributed schedule to …

During the COVID-19 period, randomly arrived patients flooded into the hospital, which
caused staffing beds to be occupied. Then, elective surgeries could not be carried out timely …

Parallel processing is a principle which enables simultaneous implementation of anesthesia
induction and operating room (OR) turnover with the aim of improving OR utilization. In this …

How to improve the efficiency of operating rooms (ORs) has always been a challenging
problem in the context of healthcare operations management. This paper focuses on the …

The health care system is characterized by limited resources, including the physical facilities
as well as skilled human resources. Due to the extensive fixed cost of medical facilities and …