A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling

Belií«n, Jeroen and Erik Demeulemeester

European Journal of Operational Research, 2008, vol. 189, issue 3, 652-668

Abstract: A common problem at hospitals is the extreme variation in daily (even hourly) workload pressure for nurses. The operating room is considered to be the main engine and hence the main generator of variance in the hospital. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First of all, we present a concrete model that integrates both the nurse and the operating room scheduling process. Second, we show how the column generation technique approach, one of the most employed exact methods for solving nurse scheduling problems, can easily cope with this model extension. Third, by means of a large number of computational experiments we provide an idea of the cost saving opportunities and required solution times.

Date: 2008
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