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

In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

As the only largest source of revenue and cost in a hospital, the operation room (OR)
scheduling problem is a hot research topic. Nonetheless, an integrated model is the missing …

Many researchers have studied optimization problems with soft and hard constraints, such
as school timetabling, nurse rostering, vehicle routing with soft time window, and …

During the COVID-19 period, randomly arrived patients flooded into the hospital, which
caused staffing beds to be occupied. Then, elective surgeries could not be carried out timely …

Given the escalating healthcare costs around the world (more than 10% of the world's GDP)
and increasing demand hospitals are under constant scrutiny in terms of managing services …

In this paper, we develop a stochastic optimization model for a surgical scheduling problem
considering a single operating room. We arrange a set of elective surgeries into appropriate …

This paper investigates the Adaptive Allocation Scheduling Problem with a modified block
scheduling policy, in which candidate patients have to be assigned and sequenced into …

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 …

Operating room planning and scheduling significantly affect all hospital areas, including the
intensive care unit and downstream wards. Planning and scheduling operating rooms …