This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

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 …

Physicians are a scarce resource in hospitals. In order to minimize physician attrition,
schedulers incorporate individual physician preferences when creating the physicians' duty …

Organisations usually construct personnel rosters under the assumption of a deterministic
operating environment. In the short term, however, organisations operate in a stochastic …

The nurse rescheduling problem denotes the problem of finding a new, feasible schedule
when a disruption occurs during schedule operation. In most cases, rescheduling is needed …

Over the past decades, optimization in operations management has grown ever more
popular not only in the academic literature but also in practice. However, the problems have …

Physician rescheduling for a short term is common and critical when the guideline schedule
for a long-term horizon needs adjustments. However, this topic is less studied in the …

For educational purposes, medical residents often have to pass through many departments,
which place different requirements on them. They are informed about the upcoming …

Managing patient to bed allocations is an everyday task in hospitals which in recent years
has moved into focus due to a general rise in occupancy levels and the resulting need to …

The growing demand for outpatient departments and prolonged waiting time of patients in
recent years has made physician scheduling necessary to provide timely medical services …