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 …

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 …

We consider a master surgery scheduling (MSS) problem in which block operating room
(OR) time is assigned to different surgical specialties. While many MSS approaches in the …

Surgery groups are clustered surgery procedure types that share comparable characteristics
(eg expected duration). Scheduling OR blocks leaves many options for operational surgery …

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 …

Variability in admissions and lengths of stay inherently leads to variability in bed occupancy.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of these sources of variability on the required …

In a master surgery scheduling (MSS) problem, a hospital's operating room (OR) capacity is
assigned to different medical specialties. This task is critical since the risk of assigning too …

Scheduling of surgeries in the operating rooms under limited competing resources such as
surgical and nursing staff, anesthesiologist, medical equipment, and recovery beds in …

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 …

Abstract This paper addresses Operating Room (OR) planning policies in elective surgery.
In particular, we investigate long-term policies for determining the Master Surgical Schedule …