This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

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

Abstract Prairie Dog Optimization is a population-based optimization method that uses the
behavior of prairie dogs to find the optimal solution. This paper proposes a novel …

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 …

Given a surgery department comprising several specialties that share a fixed number of
operating rooms and post-surgery beds, we study the joint operating room (OR) planning …

This paper studies the problem of scheduling elective surgery patients in the orthopedic
surgery division of Habib Bourguiba hospital in Tunisia. Two types of resources are …

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 …

Optimizing the daily operating room schedule can be problematic because of the many
constraints that need to be taken into account, and solving this issue within a reasonable …