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

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 …

The planning of the operating rooms (ORs) is a difficult process due to the different
stakeholders involved. The real complexity, however, results from various sources of …

Background Resource allocation in patient care relies heavily on individual judgements of
healthcare professionals. Such professionals perform coordinating functions by managing …

This paper considers an integrated operating room (OR) planning and advanced scheduling
problem in a surgery department comprising several specialties that share a fixed number of …

Background Two approaches prevail for reserving operating room (OR) capacity for
emergency surgery:(1) dedicated emergency ORs and (2) evenly allocating capacity to all …

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

This paper provides a review and classification of the state of research on the question of
how a hospital can best utilize its operating rooms (ORs) to balance efficiency and …

In hospitals, the management of operating rooms faces a trade‐off between the need to be
responsive to emergency surgeries and to conduct scheduled elective surgeries efficiently …

In this chapter we present a number of approaches to operating theatre planning and
scheduling. We organize these approaches hierarchically, which serves to illustrate the …