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

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 planning decision for operating rooms (ORs) that aim at supporting
hospital management. Focusing on elective patients, we determined the master surgical …

In healthcare, the planning and the management of resources are challenging as there are
always many complex and stochastic factors in both demand and supply. Simulation …

Providing timely access to surgery is crucial for patients with high acuity diseases like
cancer. We present a methodological framework to make efficient use of scarce resources …

To handle mass casualty incidents (MCIs), emergency medical services in central European
countries such as Austria or Germany are used to build up small field hospitals called …

The operating room scheduling problem is a popular research topic due to its complexity
and relevance. Previous literature reviews established a useful classification system for …

We consider a decentralized surgical scheduling problem with conflicting multiple
renewable resources requirements under surgeon's private availability restriction. The …

Optimization of operating room (OR) resources and costs require accurate estimations of
procedure times. In some institutions, surgeons are asked to predict their surgical control …

Operating room scheduling comprises determining the specific start timings for surgeries
and allocating the necessary resources to each scheduled surgery. It takes into account …