 An integer linear model for hospital bed planningRym Ben Bachouch, Alain Guinet and Sonia Hajri-Gabouj International Journal of Production Economics, 2012, vol. 140, issue 2, 833-843 Abstract: In this paper we investigate the hospital bed management problem. Constrained by budgetary cuts, French hospitals must efficiently manage shared resources, especially beds, which are allocated to acute and elective patients. Nurses therefore have to manage beds and to plan their use according to the demand, including cases of acute patients from the emergency ward. Managing hospital bed planning is difficult due to the demand increase and restricted hospital resources. Our aim is to propose a decision support tool based on an integer linear program for hospital bed planning, considering two classes of patients: elective and acute cases. We take into account several constraints: incompatibility between pathologies, no mixed-sex rooms, continuity of care, etc. In order to solve the proposed model and to compare the results, we use three solver softwares: GLPK, LINGO of LINDO SYSTEMS and CPLEX of ILOG. Keywords: Bed planning; Integer linear programming; Modeling; Hospital management (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:proeco:v:140:y:2012:i:2:p:833-843 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.07.023 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Production Economics is currently edited by Stefan Minner More articles in International Journal of Production Economics from Elsevier |
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