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Surgery Operations Modeling and Scheduling in Healthcare Systems

Surgery Operations Modeling and Scheduling in Healthcare Systems
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Author(s): Fatah Chetouane (Université de Moncton, Canada)and Eman Ibraheem (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 19
Source title: Effective Methods for Modern Healthcare Service Quality and Evaluation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Panagiotis Manolitzas (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Evangelos Grigoroudis (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Nikolaos Matsatsinis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)and Denis Yannacopoulos (Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9961-8.ch005

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Abstract

Surgery operations scheduling is a complex task due to operation duration uncertainties and resource sharing and availabilities in healthcare processes. In current health care systems it is important to minimize staff idle time and maintain a high utilization rate for surgery facilities. In the present study a nonlinear mathematical model for surgery scheduling is described, and an approximated linear model is deduced based on a set of assumptions. The linear model is solved using heuristic approach. The objective is to maximize the utilization of operating rooms and the surgery staff. Computational results show that our model improved the surgery schedule and the resources utilization. Our model also showed the potential of adding cases to the schedule due to minimizing the completion time of the schedule.

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