Operating theatre planning.

By A. Guinet, S. Chaabane. Nursing mirror and midwives journal, 2003

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Surgical case scheduling as a generalized job shop scheduling problem (2008, background): “In [19], inpatient scheduling is also modelled as a two-stage no-wait flow shop, but no solution approach is attempted.”
Operations Research in Healthcare: a survey (2011, background): “Additional work on the scheduling of operating rooms can be found in Puente et al. (2009), Guinet and Chaabane (2003) and Dexter and Traub (1999).”
A stochastic model for operating room planning with elective and emergency demand for surgery (2008, background): “Keywords: Stochastic programming; Operating rooms; Surgery planning; Emergency patients; Monte Carlo optimisation”
Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review (2010, methodology): “room [13, 14, 23, 101, 103, 104, 109, 122] [8, 9, 69, 96] [18, 21, 22, 23, 28, 39, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 59, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 77, 82, 84, 85, 89, 91, 95, 96, 98, 102, 103, 104, 109, 113, 114, 116, 120]”
A three-phase approach for operating theatre schedules (2007, background): “Guinet and Chaabane [ 4 ] describe this problem as a general assignment problem aimed at reducing patient stay duration and OT overtime costs.”
Robust surgery loading (2008, background): “Guinet & Chaabane (2003) first assign patients to ORs, and then reschedule the surgeries assigned to an OR to satisfy the material and personnel constraints.”