Mount Sinai Hospital Uses Integer Programming to Allocate Operating Room Time

John T. Blake () and Joan Donald ()
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John T. Blake: Department of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2X4
Joan Donald: Management Consultant, Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada E1B 1T4

Interfaces, 2002, vol. 32, issue 2, 63-73

Abstract: An integer-programming model and a post-solution heuristic allocates operating room time to the five surgical divisions at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital has used this approach for several years and credits it with both administrative savings and the ability to produce quickly an equitable master surgical schedule.

Keywords: Health care: hospitals; Programming: integer; applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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