Integrated proactive surgery scheduling in private healthcare facilities

Operating room planning and scheduling for outpatients and inpatients: A review and future research

“…Lognormal [6,20,41,63,68,69,74,88,100,101,112,113,117,119,122,132,133,139,147,148,167,169,173,175,176,179,182,183,188,192,201,203,204,[206][207][208][209] Poisson [2,13,36,52,53,63,74,80,88,101,103,109,118,121,130,…”

“…In the study of Aissaoui et al [6] for a private clinic, inpatients and outpatients are shown to have a different degree of surgery delay on the day of surgery. Specifically, the inpatients have a longer average delay (30 minutes) than outpatients (15 minutes) based on real-world data in their study.…”

“…The waiting length could vary considerably from article to article, as displayed in Figure 5 (e.g., 1.9 days in Zhang et al [201], 2.5-25.1 days in Dellaert and Jeunet [53], 38.2 days in Samudra et al [154], 7.6-79.7 days in Testi and Tànfani [172]). Only Aissaoui et al [6] report on direct waiting time (0.5 hours) for inpatients. Differently, most of the outpatient papers focus on the direct waiting time [6,34,39,84,157,194], except Zhang et al [201] who report on the indirect waiting time.…”

“…Only Aissaoui et al [6] report on direct waiting time (0.5 hours) for inpatients. Differently, most of the outpatient papers focus on the direct waiting time [6,34,39,84,157,194], except Zhang et al [201] who report on the indirect waiting time. The reason why the direct waiting time is less studied in the inpatient setting is that elective surgical cases are usually admitted as inpatients some days ahead of surgery and that the waiting time after their admission is mostly due to necessary pre-operative preparations.…”

A nested Benders decomposition-based algorithm to solve the three-stage stochastic optimisation problem modeling population-based breast cancer screening

“…This sequence often starts with an appointment, followed by multiple service processes, possibly requiring the presence of patients. In surgery scheduling, for example, different authors (Aissaoui et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020) study a multi-stage flow-shop problem in which patients only make an appointment for the first surgery stage and then go through subsequent stages (e.g. recovery) in the same order as their appointments.…”