Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since
a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main …

The case mix planning problem deals with choosing the ideal composition and volume of
patients in a hospital. With many countries having recently changed to systems where …

This paper proposes and evaluates a number of models for building surgery schedules with
leveled resulting bed occupancy. The developed models involve two types of constraints …

A common problem at hospitals is the extreme variation in daily (even hourly) workload
pressure for nurses. The operating room is considered to be the main engine and hence the …

In this paper, we review the existing studies on the design of financial incentives and
payment mechanisms for healthcare service providers, which have been published in the …

Operating room (OR) scheduling is important. Because of increasing demand for surgical
services, hospitals must provide high quality care more efficiently with limited resources …

This paper presents a software system that visualizes the impact of the master surgery
schedule on the demand for various resources throughout the rest of the hospital. The …

While system engineering concepts have been broadly applied in healthcare systems, most
improvements have focused on a specific segment or unit of the delivery system. Using a …

Background The objective of this study is to determine the effect of day of the week, holiday,
team admission and rotation schedules, individual attending physicians and their length of …

Physician spending is one of the fastest growing Canadian public sector health categories of
recent years but despite their recent growth physician numbers are a relatively small …