Scheduling

Referral patterns for common surgical procedures in Ontario: a cross-sectional population-level study
Background: Little is known about the existing structure and function of referral networks in the prevalent referral system for …
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Surgeon- and hospital-level variation in wait times for scheduled non-urgent surgery in Ontario, Canada: A cross-sectional population-based study
Background Canadian health systems fare poorly in providing timely access to elective surgical care, which is crucial for quality, …
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Social determinants of access to timely elective surgery in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional population level study
Background: Equitable access to surgical care has clinical and policy implications. We assess the association between social …
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Single-entry waitlist surgical scheduling
Scheduling surgeries in a central waitlist across multiple collaborating hospitals and surgeons to maximize total surgeries and minimize wait times
Logic-based benders decomposition and binary decision diagram based approaches for stochastic distributed operating room scheduling
The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals …
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Increased surgical capacity without additional resources: Generalized operating room planning and scheduling
We study a generalized operating room planning and scheduling (GORPS) problem at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH) in Ontario, Canada. …
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Branch-and-check methods for multi-level operating room planning and scheduling
We develop the first exact decomposition approaches for a multi-level operating room planning and scheduling problem that integrates …
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Reformulation, linearization, and decomposition techniques for balanced distributed operating room scheduling
We study the balanced distributed operating room (OR) scheduling (BDORS) problem as a location-allocation model, encompassing two …
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Logic-based benders decomposition and binary decision diagram based approaches for stochastic distributed operating room scheduling
The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals …
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Collaborative operating room planning and scheduling
Operating rooms (ORs) play a substantial role in hospital profitability, and their optimal utilization is conducive to containing the …
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