The Surgical Scheduling Problem: Current Research and Future Opportunities

Abstract

This paper reviews the general problem of surgical scheduling. We organize the literature based on the time frame or planning horizon of the schedule into six categories: capacity planning, process reengineering/redesign, the surgical services portfolio, procedure duration estimation, schedule construction, and schedule execution, monitoring, and control. We survey past work and suggest topics for potential future research in each of those areas.

Parallel Execution Optimization of GPU-aware Components in Embedded Systems

“…As our optimization challenge is similar to the bin-packing problem, we want to mention the surgical scheduling problem, where the operating rooms seen as bins, can change their (time) capacity by increasing the number of operations [25]. In addition, we find the multiprocessor scheduling problem [26] related to our challenge and we refer specifically to the Gang scheduling [27] which is considered to be an efficient algorithm for parallel and distributed systems.…”

Assessing the Queuing Process Using Data Envelopment Analysis: an Application in Health Centres

“…In numerous developing nations, such as Pakistan, almost all health organizations lack a set Appointment System, resulting in long waiting. The former works have emphasized on evaluating and improving patient flow and scheduling (Bhattacharjee and Ray, 2014) in different departments of the hospital including inpatients (Proudlove et al, 2007), outpatients (Cayirli and Veral, 2003), emergency (Gul and Guneri, 2015) and surgical/operations (May et al, 2011). However, there are only a limited number of studies which particularly assessed the flow of walk-in patients in health centres (Fetter and Thompson 1966;Rising et al, 1973;Ashton et al, 2005;Cayirli and Gunes 2014).…”

Integrated decision making in healthcare : an operations research and management science perspective

“…Table 3.1 displays our search method. To identify the search terms as listed in Appendix 3.11.2 and to create the basic structure of the planning decision hierarchy for each care service, we consulted available literature reviews [49,59,61,74,84,89,99,166,182,183,224,228,229,271,282,287,289,304,336,351,363,368,393,399,404,410,413,451,452,479,491] and books [62,231,312,361,387,503]. Additional search terms were obtained from the index of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) [362] and available synonyms.…”

“…The proportion of ambulatory surgeries, which are typically shorter, less complex and less variable [398], is increasing in many hospitals [351]. There is a vast amount of literature on OR/MS in surgical care services, comprehensively surveyed in [49,84,134,224,228,229,336,351,404,452,506]. These surveys are used to create the taxonomic overview of the planning decisions.…”

“…This concerns the number of hours per time period the surgical care services are provided [281,351,432,469,490]. Operating time capacity is determined by the number of operating rooms and their opening hours [334].…”