We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

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 …

It is common for large organizations to maintain repositories of business process models in
order to document and to continuously improve their operations. Given such a repository …

This paper presents a review of the literature on multi-appointment scheduling problems in
hospitals. In these problems, patients need to sequentially visit multiple resource types in a …

This paper reviews the contributions and applications of queueing theory in the field of
health care management problems. This review proposes a system of classification of health …

We consider a master surgery scheduling (MSS) problem in which block operating room
(OR) time is assigned to different surgical specialties. While many MSS approaches in the …

Introduction An approach to building a hybrid simulation of patient flow is introduced with a
combination of data-driven methods for automation of model identification. The approach is …

Multi-disciplinary planning in health care is an emerging research field that applies to many
health care areas with similar underlying planning characteristics. We provide a review of …

In recent years, hospitals have increasingly been faced with a growing proportion of their
inpatient work coming from the fluctuating and unpredictable demand of emergency …

In this paper, we address the problem of planning the patient flow in hospitals subject to
scarce medical resources with the objective of maximizing the contribution margin. We …