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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Scheduling of Anaesthesia Operations in Operating Rooms.

Pi-Yu Hsu, Shao-Hua Lo, Hsin-Gin Hwang, Bertrand M T Lin

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pi-Yu HsuInstitute of Information Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 100-116, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-4858-9905
Shao-Hua LoInstitute of Information Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 100-116, Taiwan.
Hsin-Gin HwangInstitute of Information Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 100-116, Taiwan.
Bertrand M T LinInstitute of Information Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 100-116, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-0456-296X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper considers scheduling of surgical operations across multiple operating rooms subject to the limited availability of anaesthetists. The objective is to construct a feasible operations schedule that has the minimum makespan, i.e., the completion time of all operations. We abstract the problem into a theoretical server scheduling problem and formulate it in a mathematical form by proposing an integer programming model. Due to the intractability of its computing time, we circumvent the exact approaches and develop two approximation methods. Then, the steepest descent search is adopted for improving the solutions. Computational study suggests that the proposed methods can produce quality solutions in a few seconds.

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anaesthesia schedulingheuristic algorithminteger programmingmakespan

Identifiers

PMID34071415
PMCPMC8228150

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