Operating Room Scheduling in Teaching Hospitals

Operating room scheduling is an important operational problem in most hospitals. In this paper, a novel mixed integer programming (MIP) model is presented for minimizing Cmax and operating room idle times in hospitals. Using this model, we can determine the allocation of resources including operatin...

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Main Authors: Somayeh Ghazalbash, Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri, Pejman Shadpour, Arezoo Atighehchian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in Operations Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/548493