Facing economic pressure and case-based compensation systems, hospitals strive for effectively planning patient … mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based approach for the day-level scheduling of clinical pathways (CP). CP form … resources such as beds, operating rooms and clinical staff. Since in most hospitals CP-related information needed for planning …

time period, their economic amounts, and their scheduling within each period. This outcome should help decision makers … could increase when reducing the total number of parts manufactured over the entire planning horizon. In fact, the …