The impact of incorporating nurse-specific characteristics in a cyclical scheduling approach

B Maenhout () and Mario Vanhoucke
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B Maenhout: Ghent University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2009, vol. 60, issue 12, 1683-1698

Abstract: Abstract Nursing staff in various hospitals in Belgium are principally cyclically scheduled. The employed cyclic schedules embody, however, only a weak reflection of the ultimate nurse rosters constructed for a specific month. In this paper, we investigate the benefits of integrating nurse-specific characteristics in the cyclic scheduling approach. Moreover, we analyse to what extent these characteristics should be incorporated and compare this approach with a general and more robust cyclical scheduling approach and the flexible acyclical rostering of nursing personnel.

Keywords: manpower planning; hospitals; timetabling; scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.131

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