A surgery block-scheduling strategy with stochastic demand

Author

Wang Yu ; Tang Jiafu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2014

fDate

May 31 2014-June 2 2014

Firstpage

2544

Lastpage

2547

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the efficient management of operating room in hospitals. We present a stochastic model with the objective of minimizing the operating costs of hospital. The patient preference and stochastic surgery demand are considered in the model, and then a column generation (CG)-based preference algorithm is proposed to solve the issue of surgery block-scheduling problem. By means of a large number of computational experiments we provided an idea of the cost-saving opportunities.

Keywords

cost reduction; hospitals; scheduling; surgery; CG-based preference algorithm; column generation; cost-saving opportunities; hospitals; operating cost minimization; operating room management; patient preference; stochastic demand; stochastic model; stochastic surgery demand; surgery block-scheduling problem; surgery block-scheduling strategy; Algorithm design and analysis; Hospitals; Indexes; Mathematical model; Processor scheduling; Stochastic processes; Surgery; Column Generation; Patient Preference; Stochastic Demand; Surgery Scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Decision Conference (2014 CCDC), The 26th Chinese

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3707-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCDC.2014.6852602

Filename

6852602