Elective surgery patients have surgery in the operating room (OR), and then recover in one
or more downstream recovery units for several consecutive hours or days after surgery …

Increased healthcare costs are pushing hospitals to reduce costs and increase the quality of
care. Operating rooms are the most important source of income and expense for hospitals …

Scheduling elective surgeries is a complicated task due to the coupled effects of multiple
sources of uncertainty and the impact of the proposed schedule on the downstream units. In …

Abstract Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) is the assignment of a number of nurses to a
number of shifts in order to satisfy hospital's demand. The objectives of NSP are the …

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

This article introduces a bespoke risk averse stochastic programming approach for
performing a strategic level assessment of hospital capacity (QAHC). We include stochastic …

In this paper we investigate the planning of operating rooms at Rigshospitalet, a large
Danish hospital. Each operation must be assigned to a specific operating room and also be …

Hospitals are struggling to maintain a balance between demand and the capacity of
resources. It is difficult because demand is highly uncertain and resource capacity is limited …

Operating rooms are the most important assets of hospitals whose capacity allocation to
different specialties is critical and challenging. This paper proposes a hybrid simulation and …

This paper proposes a new mixed-integer linear programming model to build cyclic master
surgery schedules (MSSs) for a case study of a medium-sized Portuguese private hospital …