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 …

Purpose Surgery is continuously subject to technological and medical innovations that are
transforming daily surgical routines. In order to gain a better understanding and description …

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 …

BACKGROUND: In this tutorial, we consider the impact of operating room (OR) management
on anesthesia group and OR labor productivity and costs. Most of the tutorial focuses on the …

Background: Routine predictions made by surgeons or historical mean durations have only
limited capacity to predict operating room (OR) time. The authors aimed to devise a …

In this paper, we propose a multi-objective integer linear programming model aiming at
efficiently planning and managing hospital operating room suites. By effectively exploiting a …

Surgical suites are a key driver of a hospital's costs, revenues, and utilization of
postoperative resources such as beds. This article describes some commonly occurring …

We formulate and solve two new stochastic linear programming formulations of appointment
scheduling problems that are motivated by the management of health services. We assume …

In 2007, total health-care spending in the United States reached US $2. 3 trillion, and
continues to rise at the fastest rate in US history. The design and implementation of better …