Mount Sinai Hospital Uses Integer Programming to Allocate Operating Room Time
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Interfaces
- Vol. 32 (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
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