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 …

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 …

This paper presents a comprehensive and novel mathematical model to address the
scheduling problem of inpatient surgeries. The interaction quality and compatibility level of …

Operating room planning is an important and challenging decision making problem that
should be tackled by hospitals. The present work is aimed at investigating this planning …

Operating rooms (ORs) are the greatest source of revenues for hospitals and also their
largest cost centers. When scheduling surgeries, hospitals face a trade‐off between the …

Accounting for a large portion of the hospital's total revenue and cost, better management of
the operating rooms is extremely important in improving healthcare resource utilization. This …

Real-time surgery management involves a complex and dynamic decision-making process.
The duration of surgeries in many cases cannot be known until the surgery has actually …

Background Surgical theater (ST) operations planning is a key subject in the healthcare
management literature, particularly the scheduling of procedures in operating rooms (ORs) …

In many hospitals there are patients who receive surgery later than what is medically
indicated. In one of Europe's largest hospitals, the University Hospital Leuven, this is the …

Healthcare is in constant transformation. Health systems should focus on improving
efficiency to meet a growing demand for high-quality, low-cost health care. The operating …