Title of article :
An electivesurgeryschedulingproblemconsideringpatientpriority
Author/Authors :
Daiki Min ، نويسنده , , YuehwernYih ، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Abstract :
This paperaddressesaschedulingproblemwherepatientswithdifferentprioritiesarescheduledfor
electivesurgeryinasurgicalfacility,whichhasalimitedcapacity.Whenthecapacityisavailable,
patientswithahigherpriorityareselectedfromthewaitinglistandputontheschedule.Atthe
beginningofeachperiod,adecisionofthenumberofpatientstobescheduledismadebasedonthe
trade-offs betweenthecostforovertimeworkandthecostforsurgerypostponement.Astochastic
dynamicprogrammingmodelisformulatedtoaddressthisproblem.Astructuralanalysisofthe
proposed modelisconductedtounderstandthepropertiesofanoptimalschedulepolicy.Basedonthe
structuralanalysis,boundsonfeasibleactionsareincorporatedintoavalueiterationalgorithm,anda
brief computationexperimentshowstheimprovementincomputationalefficiency.Numerical
examplesshowthattheconsiderationofpatientpriorityresultsinsignificantdifferencesinsurgery
schedulesfromtheschedulethatignoresthepatientpriority.
Keywords :
Surgery scheduling problem , stochastic dynamic programming , Patient priority
Journal title :
Computers and Operations Research
Journal title :
Computers and Operations Research
