This paper provides a review of recent operational research on operating room planning
and scheduling. We evaluate the literature on multiple fields that are related to either the …

Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since
a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main …

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 …

Given a surgery department comprising several specialties that share a fixed number of
operating rooms and post-surgery beds, we study the joint operating room (OR) planning …

Recent advances in simulation optimization research and explosive growth in computing
power have made it possible to optimize complex stochastic systems that are otherwise …

In this paper we develop a three-phase, hierarchical approach for the weekly scheduling of
operating rooms. This approach has been implemented in one of the surgical departments …

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 …

Uncertainty in the duration of surgical procedures can cause long patient wait times, poor
utilization of resources, and high overtime costs. We compare several heuristics for …

Objective. To measure the cost of nonattendance (“no-shows”) and benefit of overbooking
and interventions to reduce no-shows for an outpatient endoscopy suite. Methods. We used …

IMPLICATIONS: Tactical planning of additional operating room block time for capacity
expansion must be differentiated from a second, operational stage of matching staffing to …