The most commonly used techniques for addressing each Emergency Department (ED)
problem (overcrowding, prolonged waiting time, extended length of stay, excessive patient …

Overcrowding is a phenomenon that affects Emergency Departments (EDs) worldwide
determining a harmful impact on the healthcare provided. Because of the wide variety of …

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 …

Problem definition: Inpatient beds are usually grouped into several wards, and each ward is
assigned to serve patients from certain “primary” specialties. However, when a patient waits …

Production rescheduling is one of the most challenging problems in production
management, in which some parameters, such as customer demand and job processing …

We consider a single-server scheduling problem given a fixed sequence of appointment
arrivals with random no-shows and service durations. The probability distribution of the …

Abstract Operating Rooms (ORs) are a critical resource in hospitals. Managing ORs
efficiently is a difficult task for hospital managers, as patients' surgery durations have high …

Emergency department overcrowding is a global issue that poses a great threat to patient
health and safety. The timeliness of medical services provided to patients is crucial to …

We study a single-server appointment scheduling problem with a fixed sequence of
appointments, for which we must determine the arrival time for each appointment. We …

The post-disaster emergency response capacity of a single country is limited, and a
collaborative approach that pools emergency resources can improve disaster resilience. In …