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 …

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 …

This paper addresses a parallel machine scheduling problem with restrictions on
employees' working-times and break times. Tasks must be processed by employees …

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

Operating room (OR) scheduling problem is commonly recognized as a multi-objective
combinatorial optimization problem with several objectives from different perspectives, eg …

Hospitals are dealing with the daunting task of scheduling patients in operating rooms under
a limited budget, time, and staff. This article finds the optimal schedule of surgeries by …

In patients' healthcare, manual planning of operating rooms is very difficult due to having a
large number of constraints that the planner should take into consideration. The aim of this …

BACKGROUND: Operating Room (OR) is the core sector in hospital expenditure, the
operation management of which involves a complete three-stage surgery flow, multiple …

This text summarizes the PhD dissertation that was defended by the author in January 2009
under the supervision of Erik Demeulemeester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven …