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. The control and planning of operating rooms have became more and more important for hospital managers. Nowadays, the operating rooms, as key resources, often lead to a great time waste. So, appropriate scheduling of operations in order to increase the efficiency of the operating rooms, are significant ...
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. The control and planning of operating rooms have became more and more important for hospital managers. Nowadays, the operating rooms, as key resources, often lead to a great time waste. So, appropriate scheduling of operations in order to increase the efficiency of the operating rooms, are significant research topics in medical care. In this study, a new linear programming model has been developed for the assignment of patients to the operating rooms. Since the duration of surgical procedure is a stochastic parameter, in this paper a two-stage stochastic programming model has been presented in addition the deterministic model. These presented modelssimultaneously investigate the scheduling of surgeries and allocating them to the surgery rooms. The aim of this study is to minimize the cost of assigning patients to unspecialized rooms and reduce the cost of doctors’ idle time per working shifts by taking into account the constraints. The suggested models were applied for the surgery department of Ghaem hospital of Mashhad and solved by ILOG CPLEX 12.6.1 Microsoft Visual Studio environment. The results show that the deterministic proposed model increases the average efficiency of hospital to 38.275% and the stochastic model increases the average efficiency to 85.32%.
Seyed Mohammad Taghi Fatemi Ghomi; Ehsan Arabzadeh; Behrooz Karimi
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Home health care services have a key importance in modern societies. Most organizations working in this area in Iran use the traditional procedure to plan and manage medical staff and determine the arrangement of visiting patients. This procedure often increases costs and reduces the satisfaction of ...
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Home health care services have a key importance in modern societies. Most organizations working in this area in Iran use the traditional procedure to plan and manage medical staff and determine the arrangement of visiting patients. This procedure often increases costs and reduces the satisfaction of patients. In this paper, a multi-period routing and scheduling model is proposed in order to visit patients and provide them medical services. Considering both dependency and independence of a patient's visits with each other, assuming the model as multi-depot as well as multi period are some innovations of this study. The main purpose of the proposed model is to reduce total costs of home health care organization. Model has been solved in small scale by GAMS software. To solve the model in large scale, developed Variable neighborhood search is proposed and compared with simulated annealing algorithm and ant colony system. Results show that costs are decreased and the proposed algorithm has better performance
