Operating room (OR) scheduling is a critical factor affecting overall hospital performance. We examine OR scheduling … the three-machine flow shop. This approach facilitates a hospital-as-a-system perspective. The second perspective used to …

The sound management of operating rooms is a very important task in each hospital. To use this crucial resource … efficiently, cyclic master surgery schedules are often developed. To derive sensible schedules, high-quality input data are … from a German hospital. The results reveal clusters with considerably reduced variability compared to those of van Oostrum …

,000 surgical patients each year at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.The purpose of this article is to … projects have been implemented successfully in a hospital with high surgical complexity and indicate how health care … resource planning, optimizing the use of operating rooms and professionals' time and generating the best surgery combinations …