or in health services

Minimizing delays of patient transports with incomplete information: A modeling approach based on the Vehicle Routing Problem

  • Dennis Adelhütte
  • Kristin Braun
  • Frauke Liers
  • Sebastian Tschuppik
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Robust Optimization Tags , , , ,

    We investigate a challenging task in ambulatory care, the minimizing of delays of patient transports. In practice, a limited number of vehicles is available for non-rescue transports. Furthermore, the dispatcher rarely has access to complete information when establishing a transport plan for dispatching the vehicles. If additional transport is requested on demand then schedules need … Read more

    A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach for Stochastic Elective Surgery Scheduling with Limited Intensive Care Unit Capacity

  • Rema Padman
  • Karmel S. Shehadeh
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Scheduling, Stochastic Programming Tags , , , , ,

    In this paper, we study the decision process of assigning elective surgery patients to available surgical blocks in multiple operating rooms (OR) under random surgery durations, random postoperative length-of-stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), and limited capacity of ICU. The probability distributions of random parameters are assumed to be ambiguous, and only the mean … Read more

    Analysis of Models for the Stochastic Outpatient Procedure Scheduling Problem

  • Amy Cohn
  • Marina A. Epelman
  • Karmel S. Shehadeh
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Scheduling, Stochastic Programming Tags , , , ,

    In this paper, we present a new stochastic mixed-integer linear programming model for the Stochastic Outpatient Procedure Scheduling Problem (SOPSP). In this problem, we schedule a day’s worth of procedures for a single provider, where each procedure has a known type and associated probability distribution of random duration. Our objective is to minimize the expectation … Read more