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

This paper provides a review of recent operational research on operating room planning
and scheduling. We evaluate the literature on multiple fields that are related to either the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

It is common for large organizations to maintain repositories of business process models in
order to document and to continuously improve their operations. Given such a repository …

The allocation of surgeries to operating rooms (ORs) is a challenging combinatorial
optimization problem. There is also significant uncertainty in the duration of surgical …

Surgical case scheduling allocates hospital resources to individual surgical cases and
decides on the time to perform the surgeries. This task plays a decisive role in utilizing …

This paper reviews the general problem of surgical scheduling. We organize the literature
based on the time frame or planning horizon of the schedule into six categories: capacity …