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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we develop a three-phase, hierarchical approach for the weekly scheduling of
operating rooms. This approach has been implemented in one of the surgical departments …

BLOOD glucose has only recently emerged as an important variable in critical care. In the
past, this biologic marker has been largely ignored or considered as adaptive to the stress …

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 …