Decision making techniques have been widely used in healthcare and medical industry.
This study systematically reviews the conventional and fuzzy decision-making techniques …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

In this study, an integrated multi-criteria framework is developed to evaluate a healthcare
sector which is one of the main infrastructures for any country. Healthcare sector plays a …

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 …

Discrete event simulation (DES) studies in healthcare are thought to benefit from
stakeholder participation during the study lifecycle. This paper reports on a multi …

Objectives Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) is common in the UK as in
other countries worldwide. Computer simulation is one approach used for understanding the …

In this work we consider the problem of selecting a set of patients among a given waiting list
of elective patients and assigning them to a set of available operating room blocks. We …

An innovative framework is introduced for the enhancement of efficiency within emergency
departments (EDs), utilizing an integration of simulation and fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision …

Background Numerous studies examine simulation modelling in healthcare. These studies
present a bewildering array of simulation techniques and applications, making it challenging …

The ever increasing pressures to ensure the most efficient and effective use of limited health
service resources will, over time, encourage policy makers to turn to system modelling …