Scheduling

Large-scale decomposition strategies for 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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Propagating logic-based Benders' decomposition approaches for distributed operating room scheduling
We develop three novel logic-based Benders' decomposition (LBBD) approaches and a cut propagation mechanism to solve large-scale …
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A discrete event simulation evaluation of distributed operating room scheduling
Operating room (OR) scheduling is a challenging combinatorial problem and hence most optimization-based OR scheduling research makes …
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An examination of Benders' decomposition approaches in large-scale healthcare optimization problems
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) offers localized and minimally invasive thermal ablation of small-to-medium sized inoperable superficial …
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A simulation model for perioperative process improvement
Operating rooms (ORs) are a hospital’s largest cost center and greatest source of revenue. Surgical delays and cancellations lead …
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Reducing elective general surgery cancellations at a Canadian hospital
Background: In Canadian hospitals, which are typically financed by global annual budgets, overuse of operating rooms is a financial …
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Perioperative process improvement using discrete event simulation
A discrete event simulation was applied to model the perioperative process in the general surgery service at Toronto General Hospital, …
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