In this paper we will investigate how to sequence surgical cases in a day-care facility so that multiple objectives are simultaneously optimized. The limited availability of resources and the occurrence of medical precautions, such as an additional cleaning of the operating room after the...

Hospital capacity planning at the tactical level produces the optimal patient case mix that can be taken care of at a hospital with the associated time-phased allocation of resources. However, different generated scenarios may result in dissimilar effects on the delivery of health care when...