Title :
A surgery block-scheduling strategy with stochastic demand
Author :
Wang Yu ; Tang Jiafu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China
fDate :
May 31 2014-June 2 2014
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;
Conference_Titel :
Control and Decision Conference (2014 CCDC), The 26th Chinese
Conference_Location :
Changsha
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3707-3
DOI :
10.1109/CCDC.2014.6852602
