Background The importance of nurse staffing levels in acute hospital wards is widely
recognised but evidence for tools to determine staffing requirements although extensive, has …

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 presents a review and classification of the literature regarding workforce
planning problems incorporating skills. In many cases, technical research regarding …

Many service systems display nonstationary demand: the number of customers fluctuates
over time according to a stochastic—though to some extent predictable—pattern. To …

Background Understanding factors that can potentially influence patient care and nursing
workload in intensive care units is important. Previous studies have shown contradictory …

Background In the face of pressure to contain costs and make best use of scarce nurses,
flexible staff deployment (floating staff between units and temporary hires) guided by a …

Organizations need to focus on many parameters to reach their goals such as personnel
satisfaction at the top level, profit maximization, increasing system efficiency and minimizing …

We study the problem of integrated staffing and scheduling under demand uncertainty. This
problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic integer program with mixed-integer …

The healthcare industry has recently faced the issues of enhancing patient care,
streamlining healthcare operations, and offering high-quality services at reasonable costs …

Workforce planning for home healthcare represents an important and challenging task
involving complex factors associated with labor regulations, caregivers' preferences, and …