Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a stochastic modeling approach widely used to address
dynamic and complex systems, such as healthcare. In this review, academic databases …

With the growing demand for hospital resources worldwide, healthcare facilities, including
Emergency Departments (EDs), look for opportunities to enhance patient care efficiency and …

This paper proposes a novel bi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model
for allocating and scheduling disaster rescue units considering the learning effect. When a …

The most commonly used techniques for addressing each Emergency Department (ED)
problem (overcrowding, prolonged waiting time, extended length of stay, excessive patient …

Health care services in any country influence a considerable part of the economic, social,
and political systems; researchers are trying to improve the quality of health care to realize …

Human resource (HR) optimization has a critical role in effectiveness of hospital
management. Due to optimizing, emergency department associated cost is frequently …

Healthcare sectors face multiple threats, and the hospital emergency department (ED) is one
of the most crucial hospital areas. ED plays a key role in promoting hospitals' goals of …

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 …

Background The dynamic and systemic planning and targeting in the health system require
attention to all the system's components and investigation of their causal relationship in …

There is a need for an appropriate decision‐making approach and a precise costing method
in order to make appropriate decisions that result in managing the resource utilization …