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 …

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 …

IMPLICATIONS: Financial information can be coupled with estimates of future surgical
demand to predict the operating room (OR) workload of various subspecialties, providing …

In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

BACKGROUND: New and innovative approaches must be used to rationally allocate scarce
resources such as operating room time while simultaneously optimizing the associated …

Operating room (OR) planning and scheduling decisions involve the coordination of
patients, medical staff, and hospital facilities. The patients arriving to the hospital are …

The use of the preoperative skin preparation DuraPrep™ is thought to enhance the
adhesion qualities of an incise drape. If there is less drape lift it was hypothesized that there …

This paper studies capacity planning decisions that allocate surgical specialties to operating-
room (OR) days with the objective of minimizing total expected costs due to penalties for any …

BACKGROUND: Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an established technique that
hospitals and anesthesia groups can use to understand their potential to grow different …