A two-phase method for operating room scheduling

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, José Francisco Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Leoneti, Alexandre Bevilacqua, Costa, André Lucirton
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://bjopm.org.br/bjopm/article/view/421
• topic: Healthcare; Operating Rooms; Scheduling; Sequencing; Optimization

In this paper, a two-phase method and a computational program to perform surgery scheduling for operating rooms in a hospital are presented. In Phase I, surgeries are assigned to operating rooms using a generalized assignment model. In Phase II, a sequence for performing surgeries in each room is established. In the proposed method, Phase I maximizes doctors’ room preferences, taking into account the time available in each room, and Phase II establishes a schedule of surgeries in the rooms, according to doctors’ preferences for periods of day. The program was written in Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel and was tested as a surgery scheduling tool at St. Lydia Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.