This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on operating room planning and
scheduling problems. Aiming to give a comprehensive classification on the studied …

A comprehensive review and analysis of operating room (OR) theatre scheduling problems
as well as a comparison of solution approaches along with suggestions for future studies are …

Reactive Scheduling (RS) and the realistic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP)
are of major importance for the implementation of real-world manufacturing systems. The …

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 …

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 …

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 demonstrates a decision support tool for workforce planning and scheduling. The
research conducted in this study is oriented on batch type production typical for smaller …

Scheduling approaches for conventional surgery operating rooms in a hospital treat
surgeons as bottleneck resources directly, but do not deal with stochastic medical resources …

The achievement of health organizations' goals is critically important for profitability. For this
purpose, their resources, materials, and equipment should be efficiently used in the services …

The operating room scheduling problem is a popular research topic due to its complexity
and relevance. Previous literature reviews established a useful classification system for …