Abstract:Daily scheduling of surgical operations is a complicated and recurrent problem in the literature on health care optimization. In this study, we present an often overlooked approach to this problem that incorporates a rolling and overlapping planning horizon. The basis of our modeling approach is a Markov decision process, where patients are scheduled to a date and room on a daily basis. Acknowledging that both state and action space are only partially observable, we employ our model using a simulation-based me… Show more
“…Alternativ zu dem gerade beschriebenen Ansatz kann ein Slack für einen OP-Block z. B. mit einem fixen Prozentsatz der gesamten OP-Kapazität modelliert werden [33].…”
“…Alternativ zu dem gerade beschriebenen Ansatz kann ein Slack für einen OP-Block z. B. mit einem fixen Prozentsatz der gesamten OP-Kapazität modelliert werden [33].…”
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