A two-phase method for operating room scheduling

In this paper, a two-phase method and a computational program to perform surgery scheduling for operating rooms in a hospital are presented. In Phase I, surgeries are assigned to operating rooms using a generalized assignment model. In Phase II, a sequence for performing surgeries in each room is es...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ribeiro, José Francisco Ferreira, Leoneti, Alexandre Bevilacqua, Costa, André Lucirton
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção (ABEPRO)
Repositorio:Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.bjopm.org.br:article/421
Acceso en línea:https://bjopm.org.br/bjopm/article/view/421
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Healthcare
Operating Rooms
Scheduling
Sequencing
Optimization
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Sumario:In this paper, a two-phase method and a computational program to perform surgery scheduling for operating rooms in a hospital are presented. In Phase I, surgeries are assigned to operating rooms using a generalized assignment model. In Phase II, a sequence for performing surgeries in each room is established. In the proposed method, Phase I maximizes doctors’ room preferences, taking into account the time available in each room, and Phase II establishes a schedule of surgeries in the rooms, according to doctors’ preferences for periods of day. The program was written in Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel and was tested as a surgery scheduling tool at St. Lydia Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.