In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

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 …

For operating rooms in a hospital, the Master Surgical Scheduling Problem concerns the
assignments of surgeons to time blocks over a planning horizon. This paper contributes …

This paper proposes an integrated approach to merge patient prioritization and patient
scheduling to improve access to services in an elective (ie, non-urgent) context. In particular …

Decisions on the number of surgeries to perform during a typical week in an operating room
(OR) generally affect downstream resources such as intensive care units (ICU), recovery …

Ports are an important driving force for world economic growth, but they consume
considerable energy. The marine sector has proposed the development of green ports to …

Operating room managers are facing increasingly complex challenges, namely in complying
with waiting time targets before surgery. This paper proposes a framework that combines …

We study elective surgery planning in flexible operating rooms (ORs) where emergency
patients are accommodated in the existing elective surgery schedule. Specifically, elective …

Proper planning and scheduling of activities involved in health can improve productivity in
this area. In this regard, hospitals are one of the most critical components, and in hospitals …

Tactically, surgical operations are an important frontier of health care systems that involves
treatment of injuries, diseases, and other disorders by manual and instrumental means …