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

Increased healthcare costs are pushing hospitals to reduce costs and increase the quality of
care. Operating rooms are the most important source of income and expense for hospitals …

Planning and scheduling of operating rooms (ORs) is important for hospitals to improve
efficiency and achieve high quality of service. Due to significant uncertainty in surgery …

Hospital decision and policy makers are tasked with developing innovative strategies to
provide patients with quality healthcare in an effective and efficient manner. Operations …

Surgery scheduling is the allocating of hospital resources to surgical procedures over time.
These problems are continuously encountered in hospitals delivering surgical treatment to …

The management of waiting lists in hospitals is a topic with relevance given its direct
implication in the quality of healthcare services provided to the patients in the good …

This paper addresses the scheduling of elective surgeries in an operation theater that also
treats emergent patients with priority when they arrive randomly. Two types of problems are …

Background and Objectives: Operating room (OR) scheduling is key to optimal operating
room productivity. The significant uncertainty associated with surgery duration renders …

A gestão de listas de espera em meio hospitalar é um tema de particular relevância dada a
sua implicação direta na qualidade dos serviços de saúde prestados aos pacientes, na boa …

Surgery scheduling is the task of allocating resources to surgical procedures over time.
Because hospitals are dynamic environments governed by uncertainty, difficult priorities and …