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Integrating surgeons' preferences in the operating theatre planning

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  • Benoit Roland
  • Fouad Riane

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In healthcare systems, the operating theatre is recognised as having an important role, notably in terms of generated income and cost. Its management, and in particular its scheduling, is thus a critical activity. A less costly organisation of the operating rooms needs a more rational use of the resources, which requires optimising the surgical schedule. As we are concerned in the medical staff well-being, we integrate the surgeons' preferences when setting up such schedules. This planning process is usually decomposed in two sequential phases: a planning stage followed by a scheduling stage. Due to this decomposition the resulting solutions may turn out to be sub-optimal. This paper describes a mixed-integer programming that completely covers the planning and scheduling of the surgical operations. The pursued objective is twofold: minimising the operating cost and maximising the surgeons' welfare. [Received 30 September 2008; Revised 29 May 2009; Revised 18 March 2010; Accepted 2 June 2010]

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  • Benoit Roland & Fouad Riane, 2011. "Integrating surgeons' preferences in the operating theatre planning," European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(2), pages 232-250.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:eujine:v:5:y:2011:i:2:p:232-250
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    1. Akbarzadeh, Babak & Maenhout, Broos, 2024. "A study on policy decisions to embed flexibility for reactive recovery in the planning and scheduling process in operating rooms," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    2. Mengyu Guo & Su Wu & Binfeng Li & Jie Song & Youping Rong, 2016. "Integrated scheduling of elective surgeries and surgical nurses for operating room suites," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 166-181, June.
    3. Loïc Deklerck & Babak Akbarzadeh & Broos Maenhout, 2022. "Constructing and evaluating a master surgery schedule using a service-level approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 3663-3711, September.
    4. Babak Akbarzadeh & Ghasem Moslehi & Mohammad Reisi-Nafchi & Broos Maenhout, 2020. "A diving heuristic for planning and scheduling surgical cases in the operating room department with nurse re-rostering," Journal of Scheduling, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 265-288, April.

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