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

Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

In recent years, Operations Research/Management (OR/OM) has had a significant impact on
improving the performance of hospital Emergency Departments (EDs). This includes …

Organizations need to focus on many parameters to reach their goals such as personnel
satisfaction at the top level, profit maximization, increasing system efficiency and minimizing …

Emergency department (ED) have become the patient's main point of entrance in modern
hospitals causing it frequent overcrowding, thus hospital managers are increasingly paying …

We present a model for the surgery admission planning problem, and a meta-heuristic
algorithm for solving it. The problem involves assigning operating rooms and dates to a set …

Personnel scheduling deals with the attribution of a number of duty shifts to a number of
workers respecting several types of requirements. In this work, the problem of scheduling …

In this paper, we present the Integrated Physician and Surgery Scheduling Problem (IPSSP)
as a new approach for solving operating room scheduling problems where staff rosters for …

We study a real-world problem arising from the operations of a hospital service provider,
which we term the master physician scheduling problem. It is a planning problem of …

The chief residents in the psychiatry program at Boston University School of Medicine
(BUSM) must construct a schedule that simultaneously assigns residents to five types of call …