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A Methodology For Scheduling Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty, Marbelly Paola Davila
A Methodology For Scheduling Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty, Marbelly Paola Davila
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
An operating room (OR) is considered to be one of the most costly functional areas within hospitals as well as its major profit center. It is known that managing an OR department is a challenging task, which requires the integration of many actors (e.g., patients, surgeons, nurses, technicians) who may have conflicting interests and priorities.
Considering these aspects, this dissertation focuses on developing a simulation based methodology for scheduling operating rooms under uncertainty, which reflects the complexity, uncertainty and variability associated with surgery.
We split the process of scheduling ORs under uncertainty into two main components. First, we designed a …