Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

In recent years, Operations Research/Management (OR/OM) has had a significant impact on
improving the performance of hospital Emergency Departments (EDs). This includes …

Didaktisch effektives und effizientes Standardwerk in der 9. Auflage: Dieses Buch entstand
aus Vorlesungen zur Einführung in Operations Research (OR) für Studierende der Betriebs …

A challenging problem for Emergency Department (ED) managers is determining the best
allocation of the medical staff that is required to promptly attend patients in the face of …

Background A prolonged length of stay in an emergency department is related to lower
quality of care and adverse outcomes, which are often linked with overcrowding. Objective …

In the face of high staffing costs, uncertain patient arrivals, and patients unsatisfied with long
wait times, staffing of medical emergency departments (EDs) is a vexing problem. Using …

This paper addresses a physician scheduling problem in an Emergency Room (ER)
requiring a long-term work calendar to allocate work days and types of shift among all the …

Healthcare lags decades behind other industries in terms of operational analytics.
Numerous technical proof-of-concept projects in the use of optimization, machine learning …

Medicine residency is three to seven years of challenging graduate medical training that
puts a lot of mental and physiological burden over the residents. Like other surgical …

We propose a new solution for the Emergency Department (ED) staffing and scheduling
problem, considering uncertainty in patient arrival patterns, multiple treatment stages, and …