Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

The service sector is an indisputable and fundamental pillar of today's business world,
encompassing nearly 80 percent of the workforce in the USA. Service operations …

Efficient patient flow through an emergency department is a critical factor that contributes to
a hospital's performance, which influences overall patient health outcomes. In this work, we …

For a general production network, state-of-the-art methods for constructing sparse flexible
designs are heuristic in nature, typically computing a proxy for the quality of unseen …

Problem definition: Delays in admission to rehabilitation care can adversely impact patient
outcomes. In addition, delayed patients keep occupying their acute care beds, making them …

Health system managers should determine how to choose the medical staff configuration in
each service within the constraints concerning the mean waiting time of all patients. Hospital …

The continuing growth of the older population has led to a significant increase in demand for
rehabilitation over the past two decades and subsequently in long delays in admission to …

Emergency rooms (ERs) are essential components of the healthcare system, but in recent
times, ERs across Canada have been experiencing extended emergency room length of …