2025

Ahmadian MA, Varmazyar M, Fallahi A. Efficient scheduling of integrated operating rooms and post-anesthesia care units under uncertain surgery and recovery times: an artificial neural network-metaheuristic framework. Soft Computing 29:3909-3941, 2025

Akbarzadeh B, Maenhout B. A dedicated branch-price-and-cut algorithm for advance patient planning and surgeon scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 322:448-466, 2025

Al Amin M, Baldacci R, Kayvanfar V. A comprehensive review on operating room scheduling and optimization. Operational Research 25:3, 2025

Batur Sir GD, Oner N, Erol S. Seniority-based surgery scheduling and team assignment. Sadhana 50:86, 2025

Buma D, Ngasa S, Ndesangia A. Cost saving and health workers perceptions of pharmacist integration in operating rooms: a mixed-methods cross-section study. Inquiry 62:469580251343776, 2025

Carter MW, Hawa T, Busby C. A simple and practical approach to improving the cost effectiveness of surgical inventory management. Health Systems 14:31-42, 2025

Croella AL, Tronci EM, Nastasi A, Palagi L, Petitti F, Romano F. Multi-criteria optimization scheduling of surgical units: a case study at Policlinico Umberto I of Rome. Operations Research Forum 6:38, 2025

Dai Z, Gong X, Wang JJ, Yu L, Shi J. Integrated robust scheduling for inpatient surgery and ambulatory surgery. Computers & Operations Research 181:107098, 2025

Dexter F, Pomeroy MG, Marian AA, Ituk US, Epstein RH. Incorrectly charted operating rooms, with resulting overlapping times, corrected using metadata from monitors transmitting pulse oximetry measurements. A&A Practice 19: e01917, 2025

Eussen MMM, Logghe E, Bluiminck S, Comes DJ, Kimman ML, Essers BAB, Wellens LM, Kruijff S, de Reuver PR, Bouvy ND. Reducing surgical instrument usage: systematic review of approaches for tray optimization and its advantages on environmental impact, costs and efficiency. BJS Open 9:zraf030, 2025

Frichi Y, Aboueljinane L, Jawab F. Using discrete-event simulation to assess an AHP-based dynamic patient prioritisation policy for elective surgery. Journal of Simulation 19:39-63, 2025

Ge Y, Ong MEH, Lam SSW. Efficient design of automated guided vehicle systems in operating theatres via discrete events simulation. Scientific Reports 15:20766, 2025

Howell TC, Zaribafzadeh H, Sumner MD, Rogers U, Rollman J, Buckland DM, Kent M, Kirk AD, Allen PJ, Rogers B. Ambulatory surgery ensemble: predicting adult and pediatric same-day surgery cases across specialties. Annals of Surgery Open 6:e534, 2025

Li Y, Li Z, Shu J, Zhang M, Zhu Z. Elective surgery planning in mobile operating theaters under uncertain demand of emergency patients. Naval Research Logistics 72:481-501, 2025

Liao HC, Wang YH. A robust ORMS framework for Taiwanese healthcare: Taguchi's dynamic method in action. Healthcare 13:1024, 2025

Lin YK, Chong CS. Solving three-stage operating room scheduling problems with uncertain surgery durations. Mathematics 13:1973, 2025.

Mácola A, Rocha N, Kenfield M, Janek K, Balch W, Poulin J, Brown L, Nichol PF. An analysis of the economic challenges facing central sterile processing employees in the united states: results of a national survey. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 40:100520, 2025

Makboul S, Olteanu AL, Sevaux M. A multiobjective e-constraint based approach for the robust master surgical schedule under multiple uncertainties. European Journal of Operational Research 320:682-698, 2025

Natarus ME, Shaw A, Studer A, Williams C, Dominguez C, Mangual H, Olmstead J, Westmoreland K, Gill T, Wellington WZ, Wheeler DS, Ida JB. Optimization of a sterile processing department using Lean Six Sigma methodology, staffing enhancement, and capital investment. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 51:33-45, 2025

Rana V, Yano CA, Newman AM. Block scheduling in a multi-hospital setting. Operations Research Data Analytics and Logistics 8:200477, 2025

Routman JS, Zhang EJ, Blocker JD, Paiste J, Tsai MH. Using performance frontiers to evaluate non-OR anesthesia (NORA) efficiency. Journal of Medical Systems 49:96, 2025

Santos de Melo IE, Fogliatto FS. Integration of decision levels in operating room scheduling problems: systematic review and proposition of a decision support framework. Computers & Operations Research 180:107063, 2025

Singh A, Farmer PE, Tully JL, Waterman RS, Gabriel RA. Forecasting surgical bed utilization: architectural design of a machine learning pipeline incorporating predicted length of stay and surgical volume. Journal of Medical Systems 49:67, 2025

Wan F, Wang T, Wang K, Si Y, Fondrevelle J, Du S, Duclos A. Surgery scheduling based on large language models. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 166:103151, 2025

Wang L, Demeulemeester E. Simulation modeling and analysis of the inpatient surgical department in a university hospital. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 142:103103, 2025

Xue J, Li Z, Zhang S. Multi-resource constrained elective surgical scheduling with Nash equilibrium toward smart hospitals. Scientific Reports 15:3946, 2025

Zubkov MR, Iguidbashian J, Lun Z, Bata K, Gunn-Sandell L, Crosby D, Stoebner K, Tharp D, Staubli L, Lin C, Cumbler E, Wiler J, McIntyre RC Jr, Yi J. Novel electronic health records-based consultation workflow improves time to operating room for surgery patients in an acute setting. American Journal of Surgery 246:116386, 2025

2024

Addis B, Carello G, Tanfani E. Evaluating the impact of the level of robustness in operating room scheduling problems. Healthcare 12:2023, 2024

Akbarzadeh B, Maenhout B. A study on policy decisions to embed flexibility for reactive recovery in the planning and scheduling process in operating rooms. Omega 126:103061, 2024

Al Hasan H, Guéret C, Lemoine D, Rivreau D. A robust lp-based approach for a dynamic surgical case scheduling problem with sterilisation constraints. International Journal of Production Research 62:5925-5944, 2024

Ala A, Goli A. Incorporating machine learning and optimization techniques for assigning patients to operating rooms by considering fairness policies. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 136:108980, 2024

Behmanesh R. Robust operating room scheduling: a two stage advanced ant system. Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research 58:217-231, 2024

Bektur G, Aslan HK. Artificial bee colony algorithm for operating room scheduling problem with dedicated/flexible resources and cooperative operations. International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications 14:193-207, 2024

Belkhamsa M, Euchi J, Siarry P. Optimizing elective surgery scheduling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic using artificial intelligence strategies. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 90:101690, 2024

Carter MW, Ketabi S. Surgical scheduling to smooth demand for resources. Operations Research for Health Care 40:100411, 2024

Chan J, Görgülü B, Sarhangian V. Inventory management with advance booking information: the case of surgical supplies and elective surgeries. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26:931-951, 2024

Dai Z, Wang JJ. Elective surgery scheduling considering transfer risk in hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system. Journal of the Operational Research Society 75:660-672, 2024

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Fundamentals of operating room allocation and case scheduling to minimize the inefficiency of use of the time. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 35:100379, 2024

Dexter F, Scheib S, Xie W, Epstein RH. Bibliometric analysis of contributions of anesthesiology journals and anesthesiologists to operating room management science. Anesthesia & Analgesia 138:1120-1128, 2024

Dodaro C, Galatà G, Gebser M, Maratea M, Marte C, Mochi M, Scanu M. Operating room scheduling via answer set programming: improved encoding and test on real data. Journal of Logic and Computation 34:1556-1579, 2024

Elliott-Dawe C, Chen J, Stucky CH, Zadinsky JK. Retrospective analysis of associated costs and sources of variability in OR utilization across weekdays. AORN Journal 120:e1-e11, 2024

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Fahy BG. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 90% of elective anesthetics have been ambulatory: A retrospective analysis of statewide data in Florida from 2010 through 2022. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 98:111596, 2024

Eremiev A, London D, Ber R, Kurland DB, Sheerin K, Dennett H, Pacione D, Laufer I. Digital preoperative huddle platform use leads to decreased surgical cost. Neurosurgery 95:1178-1185, 2024

Fallahpour Y, Rafiee M, Elomri A, Kayvanfar V, El Omri A. A multi-objective planning and scheduling model for elective and emergency cases in the operating room under uncertainty. Decision Analytics Journal 11:100475, 2024

Filiberto AC, Loftus TJ, Crippen CJ, Hu D, Balch JA, Efron PA, Sarosi Jr. GA, Upchurch Jr GR. Operating room supply cost and value of care after implementing a sustainable quality intervention. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 238:404-413, 2024

Fu X, Qi J, Yang C, Ye H. Elective surgery sequencing and scheduling under uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26:893-910, 2024

Gür S, Alakas HM, Pinarbasi M, Eren T. Stochastic operating room scheduling: a new model for solving problem and an approach for determining the factors that affect operation time variations. Soft Computing 28:3987-4007, 2024

Harris S, Nino V. Claudio D. Simulating a sterilization processing department to evaluate block schedules and tray configurations Systems Engineering 27:54-73, 2024

Hmidet I, Rekik I, Jlassi Elmabrouk J. A new mathematical model for the assignment of nurses to operating rooms. International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation 10:386-406, 2024

Li Z, Yu H, Zhou Z. Scheduling of elective operations with coordinated utilization of hospital beds and operating rooms. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 47:75, 2024

Lin C, Shen J, Chen S, Chen H, Huang H. Developing a cost-effective surgical scheduling system applying lean thinking and Toyota’s methods for surgery-related big data for improved data use in hospitals: user-centered design approach. JMIR Formative Research 8:e52185, 2024

Lotfi M, Behnamian J. Virtual alliance in hospital network for operating room scheduling: Benders decomposition. Journal of Optimization in Industrial Engineering 17:15-30, 2024

Melland-Smith M, Chang J, Essani V, Maskal S, Ellis R, Beffa L, Petro C, Prabhu A, Krpata D, Miller B, Rosen M. Cost, operative delay, and X-rays for incorrect surgical counts. The American Surgeon 90:3128-3130, 2024

Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Ozaki A. Association between surgical productivity and start time. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 34:100371, 2024

Nichol PF, Saari MJ, Navas N, Aguilar D, Bliesner RK, Brunner PJ, Caceres JC, Chen M, VanDommelen AR, Fischer M, Garcha S, Ghawas EA, Hackinson GR, Hitzeman A, Jabbour M, Jentsch AM, Kurth MM, Leyden M, Luo Q, McGrain AC, Nytes G, O'Brien OR, Philavong JK, Villegas N, Walsh SR, Wisdorf SS. Observed rates of surgical instrument errors point to visualization tasks as being a critically vulnerable point in sterile processing and a significant cause of lost chargeable OR minutes. BMC Surgery 24:110, 2024

Nurmela P, Mykkänen M, Kinnunen UM. The completeness of the operating room data. Methods of Information in Medicine 63:137-144, 2024

Rubak P, Christensen AE, Granlie M, Bundgaard K. Surgical instrument tray optimization process at a university hospital: a comprehensive overview. Surgery Open Science 21:60-65, 2024

Shen W, Luo L, Luo L, Zhang L, Zhu T. A data-driven newsvendor model for elective-emergency admission control under uncertain inpatient bed capacity. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 17:78-85, 2024

Soh KW, Walker C, O'Sullivan M, Wallace J. Innovative operating room scheduling metric for creating surgical lists with desirable room utilisation rates. Operations and Management Research 17:544-567, 2024

van Nieuwenhuizen KE, van Trier T, Friedericy HJ, Jansen FW, Dankelman J, van der Eijk AC. Optimising surgical instrument trays for sustainability and patient safety by combining actual instrument usage and expert recommendations. Sustainability 16:6953, 2024

Vladu A, Ghitea TC, Daina LG, Tîrt DP, Daina MD. Enhancing operating room efficiency: the impact of computational algorithms on surgical scheduling and team dynamics. Healthcare 12:1906, 2024

Wan F, Wang T, Fondrevelle J, Duclos A. Collaborative optimization of surgery and ICU under uncertainty. Expert Systems with Applications 243:122950, 2024

Wang K, Wang X, Xu C, Bai L. Bibliometric research on surgical scheduling management from the perspective of Web of Science. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 17:3715-3726, 2024

Wang L, Demeulemeester E, Vansteenkiste N, Rademakers FE. The value of partitioning for scheduling surgeries in the inpatient surgical department. European Journal of Operational Research 313:112-128, 2024

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Tang J. Wasserstein distributionally robust surgery scheduling with elective and emergency patients. European Journal of Operational Research 314:509-522, 2024

Yu H, Gao K, Wu N, Suganthan PN. Ensemble meta-heuristics and Q-learning for staff dissatisfaction constrained surgery scheduling and rescheduling. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 134:108668, 2024

Yu H, Gao K, Wu N, Zhou MC, Suganthan PN, Wang S. Scheduling multiobjective dynamic surgery problems via Q-learning-based meta-heuristics. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 54:3321-3333, 2024

Yuniartha DR, Normasari NME, Waluyo J, Masruroh NA, Herliansyah MK. Techniques for improving genetic algorithms in solving operating room scheduling problems: an integrative review. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 6:35-46, 2024

Zhang C, Dunstan C, Pandi JJ. A tutorial on 'capped utilisation' as a metric and key performance target in NHS England's Model Hospital operating theatres database: caution for international healthcare systems. Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science 2:35, 2024

Zhang EJ, Saffary R, Sharma S, Hagood JM, Elhajj AJ, Tsai MH. Scaling performance frontiers across multiple perioperative services. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 35:100407, 2024

Zhang R, Yu H, Gao K, Fu Y, Kim JH. A Q-learning based artificial bee colony algorithm for solving surgery scheduling problems with setup time. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 90:101686, 2024

Zhang RX, Yu H, Slowik A, Gao KZ. Q-learning based meta-heuristics for scheduling bi-objective surgery problems with setup time. Complex System Modeling and Simulation 4:321-338, 2024

Zheng H, Wang Q, Li J. Workflow analysis in operating rooms: a system-theoretic approach. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 21:6383-6400, 2024

Zhu L, Zhou Y, Jiang R, Su Q. Surgical cases assignment problem using a multi-objective squirrel search algorithm. Expert Systems with Applications 235:121217, 2024

2023

Adams T, O'Sullivan M, Walker C, Wang K, Boyle L. Application of a risk-averse objective function for scheduling surgeries. Computers & Operations Research 151:106086, 2023

Behnamian J, Panahi A. Harmony search algorithm for stochastic operating room scheduling considering overhead costs and number of surgeries. International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Production Research 34:1-19, 2023

Bernhard L, Amalanesan AF, Baumann O, Rothmeyer F, Hafner Y, Berlet M, Wilhelm D, Knoll A. Mobile service robots for the operating room wing: balancing cost and performance by optimizing robotic fleet size and composition. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 18:195-204, 2023

Bui H, Eksiog~lu SD, Villafranca AA, Sanford JA, Sexton KW. A long short-term memory model for forecasting the surgical case volumes at a hospital. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 13:226-236, 2023

Cai X, Wu X, Zhou X. Optimal schedule of elective surgery operations subject to disruptions by emergencies. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 10:6886-6907, 2023

Dai Z, Perera S, Wang JJ, Mangla SK, Li G. Elective surgery scheduling under uncertainty in demand for intensive care unit and inpatient beds during the epidemic outbreaks. Computers & Industrial Engineering 176:108893, 2023

Dai Z, Perera S, Wang JJ. Adopting a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system to optimize elective surgery scheduling. Computers & Operations Research 159:106342, 2023

Dekhici L, Belkadi K. A bi-objective paediatric operating theater scheduling. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics 18:1-15, 2023

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Fahy BG. Association of surgeons' gender with elective surgical lists in the State of Florida is explained by differences in mean operative caseloads. PLoS One 18:e0283033, 2023  

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Loftus RW. Quantifying and interpreting inequality in surgical site infections per quarter among anesthetizing locations and specialties. Cureus 15:e36878, 2023  

Ebrahimi M, Atighehchian A. Design of a mathematical model and a simulation-optimisation approach for master surgical scheduling considering uncertainty in length of stay, demands and duration of surgery. International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 43:435-463, 2023

Eshghali M, Kannan D, Salmanzadeh-Meydani N, Esmaieeli Sikaroudi AM. Machine learning based integrated scheduling and rescheduling for elective and emergency patients in the operating theatre. Annals of Operations Research 332:989-1012, 2023

Faeghi S, Lennerts K, Nickel S. Strategic planning of operating room session allocation using stability analysis. Health Systems 12:167-180, 2023

Faeghi S, Lennerts, Nickel S. A system dynamics model application to operating room planning and management. Journal of Simulation 17:58-75, 2023

Farsi A, Torabi SA, Mokhtarzadeh M. Integrated surgery scheduling by constraint programming and meta-heuristics. International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management 18:292-304, 2023

Gabriel RA, Harjai B, Simpson S, Goldhaber N, Curran BP, Waterman RS. Machine learning-based models predicting outpatient surgery end time and recovery room discharge at an ambulatory surgery center. Anesthesia & Analgesia 135:159-169, 2023

Ghasemi S, Tavakkoli-Moghaddam R, Hamid M. Operating room scheduling by emphasising human factors and dynamic decision-making styles: a constraint programming method. International Journal of Systems Science 10:2224509, 2023

Ghasemkhani A, Torabi SA, Hamid M. A hybrid simulation and optimisation approach for capacity allocation of operating rooms under uncertainty. International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics 10:2244423, 2023

Gökalp E, Gülpinar N, Doan XV. Dynamic surgery management under uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research 309:832-844, 2023

Goldfield NM, Malapati P, Chafitz T, Saravanapavan Y, Alamgir N, Gander J, Meyer MJ. Sterile surgical supply waste identification using asynchronous analysis: pediatric surgery QI pilot. Surgery Open Science 15:32-327, 2023

Gür S, Pinarbasi M, Alakas HM, Eren T. Operating room scheduling with surgical team: a new approach with constraint programming and goal programming. Central European Journal of Operations Research 31:1061-1085, 2023

Hashemi Doulabi H, Khalilpourazari S. Stochastic weekly operating room planning with an exponential number of scenarios. Annals of Operations Research 328:643-664, 2023

Hassanzadeh H, Boyle J, Khanna S, Biki B, Syed F, Sweeney L, Borkwood E. A discrete event simulation for improving operating theatre efficiency. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 38:360-379, 2023

Kianfar K, Atighehchian A. A hybrid heuristic approach to master surgery scheduling with downstream resource constraints and dividable operating room blocks. Annals of Operations Research 328:727-754, 2023

Lalmazloumian M, Baki MF, Ahmadi M. A two-stage stochastic optimization framework to allocate operating room capacity in publicly-funded hospitals under uncertainty. Health Care Management Science 26:238-260, 2023

Lim G, Lim AJ, Quinn B, Carvalho B, Zakowski M, Lynde GC. Obstetric operating room staffing and operating efficiency using queueing theory. BMC Health Services Research 23:1147, 2023

Lin YK, Yen CH. Genetic algorithm for solving the no-wait three-stage surgery scheduling problem. Healthcare 11:739, 2023

Liu L, Wang C, Wang JJ, Crespo AMF. An iterative auction for resource-constrained surgical scheduling. Journal of the Operational Research Society 74:968-978, 2023

Maleki A, Nesaz HH, Jasemi M. A comparative analysis of the efficient operating room scheduling models using robust optimization and upper partial moment. Healthcare Analytics 3:100144, 2023

Mashkani O, Ernst AT, Thiruvady D, Gu H. Minimizing patients total clinical condition deterioration in operating theatre departments. Annals of Operations Research 328:821-857, 2023

Mochi M, Galatà G, Maratea M. Master surgical scheduling via answer set programming. Journal of Logic and Computation 33:1777-1803, 2023

Nichol PF, Saari MJ. Risk modeling of errors in the surgical instrument cycle, insights to solutions for an expensive and persistent problem. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 32:100333, 2023

Perry H, Reeves N, Ansell J, Cornish J, Torkington J, Morris DS, Brennan F, Horwood J. Innovations towards achieving environmentally sustainable operating theatres: a systematic review. The Surgeon 21:141-151, 2023

Rahimi A, Hejazi SM, Zandieh M, Mirmozaffari M. A novel hybrid simulated annealing for no-wait open-shop surgical case scheduling problems. Applied System Innovation 6:15, 2023

Rao SA, Deshpande NG, Richardson DW, Brickman J, Posner MC, Matthews JB, Turaga KK. Alignment of RVU targets with operating room block time. Annals of Surgery Open 4:e260, 2023

Sales-Coll M, de Castro R, Hueto-Madrid JA. Improving operating room efficiency using lean management tools. Production Planning & Control 34:1261-1274, 2023

Saporito A, La Regina D, Perren A, Gabutti L, Anselmi L, Cafarotti S, Mongelli F. Contribution margin per hour of operating room to reallocate unutilized operating room time: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology. 73:243-249, 2023

Saporito A, Tassone C, Di Iorio A, Barbieri Saraceno M, Bressan A, Pini R, Mongelli F, La Regina D. Six Sigma can significantly reduce costs of poor quality of the surgical instruments sterilization process and improve surgeon and operating room personnel satisfaction. Scientific Reports 13:14116, 2023

Schouten AM, Flipse SM, van Nieuwenhuizen KE, Jansen FW, van der Eijk AC, van den Dobbelsteen JJ. Operating room performance optimization metrics: a systematic review. Journal of Medical Systems 47:19, 2023

Shi Y, Mahdian S, Blanchet J, Glynn P, Shin AY, Scheinker D. Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data. Health Care Management Science 26:692-718, 2023

Taaffe K, Ferrand YB, Khoshkenar A, Fredendall L, San D, Rosopa P, Joseph A. Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions. Health Care Management Science 26:261-278, 2023

Tayyab A, Ullah S, Baki MF. An outer approximation method for scheduling elective surgeries with sequence dependent setup times to multiple operating rooms. Mathematics 11:2441, 2023

von Schudnat C, Schoeneberg KP, Albors-Garrigos J, Lahmann B, De-Miguel-Molina M. The economic impact of standardization and digitalization in the operating room: a systematic literature review. Journal of Medical Systems 47:55, 2023

Wang JJ, Dai Z, Zhang W, Shi JJ. Operating room scheduling for non-operating room anesthesia with emergency uncertainty. Annals of Operations Research 321:565-588, 2023

Wang S, Su H, Wan G, Zhong L. Surgery scheduling in the presence of operating room eligibility and dedicated surgeon: an adaptive composite dispatching method. International Journal of Production Research 61:1866-1881, 2023

Xu H, Fang Y, Chou CA, Fard N, Luo L. A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption. Health Care Management Science 26:430-446, 2023

Yang MC, Pan QK, Sang HY, Li WM, Wang YL. A slack speed-up based discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for resource-constrained operating room scheduling problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering 186:109760, 2023

Yuniartha DR, Hans FR, Masruroh NA, Herliansyah MK. Adapting duration categorical value to accommodate duration variability in a next-day operating room scheduling. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 37:101180, 2023

Zhu L, Zhou Y, Sun S, Su Q. Surgical cases assignment problem using an efficient genetic programming hyper-heuristic. Computers & Industrial Engineering 178:109102, 2023

2022

Agrawal V, Zhang Y, Sundararaghavan PS. Multi-criteria surgery scheduling optimization using modeling, heuristics, and simulation. Healthcare Analytics 2:100034, 2022

Ahmed A, He L, Chou CA, Firouz M, Hamasha MM. A prediction-optimization approach to surgery prioritization in operating room scheduling. Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering 39:399-413, 2022

Aringhieri R, Duma D, Landa P, Mancini S. Combining workload balance and patient priority maximisation in operating room planning through hierarchical multi-objective optimisation. European Journal of Operational Research 298:627-643, 2022

Azaiez MN, Gharbi A, Kacem I, Makhlouf Y, Masmoudi M. Two-stage no-wait hybrid flow shop with inter-stage flexibility for operating room scheduling. Computers and Industrial Engineering 168:108040, 2022

Bai M, Storer RH, Tonkay GL. Surgery sequencing coordination with recovery resource constraints. INFORMS Journal on Computing 34:1207-1223, 2022

Bai X, Zhang W, Luo L, Ma H, Zhu T. Day surgery scheduling and optimization in large public hospitals in China: a three-station job shop scheduling problem. Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2022:1149657, 2022

Bovim TR, Abdullahu A, Andersson H, Gullhav AN. Integrated master surgery and outpatient clinic scheduling. Operations Research for Health Care 35:100358, 2022

Britt J, Li X, Azab A, Baki MF. Stochastic goal programming and metaheuristics for the master surgical scheduling problem. International Journal of Operational Research 43:5-41, 2022

Chabouh S, Hammami S, Marcon E, Bouchriha H. A pull-strategy for the appointment scheduling of surgical patients in a hospital-integrated facility. Health Systems 11:172-188, 2022

Chen YW, Westfal ML, Cauley CE, Chang DC, Kelleher CM. Do surgeons adjust clinical productivity after maternity leave? American Journal of Surgery 223:900-904, 2022

Dai Z, Wang JJ, Shi JJ. How does the hospital make a safe and stable elective surgery plan during COVID-19 pandemic? Computers & Industrial Engineering 169:108210, 2022

de Matta R. Patient-centric surgeons' case mix problem. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 12:111-129, 2022

Deklerck L, Akbarzadeh B, Maenhout B. Constructing and evaluating a master surgery schedule using a service-level approach. Operational Research 22:3663-3711, 2022

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Diez C, Fahy BG. More surgery in December among US patients with commercial insurance is offset by unrelated but lesser surgery among patients with Medicare insurance. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 37:2445-2460, 2022  

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Ledolter J, Pearson AC, Maga J, Fahy BG. Benchmarking surgeons' gender and year of medical school graduation associated with monthly operative workdays for multispecialty groups. Cureus 14:e25054, 2022  

Dossa F, Zeltzer D, Sutradhar R, Simpson AN, Baxter NN. Sex differences in the pattern of patient referrals to male and female surgeons. JAMA Surgery 157:95-103, 2022

Elliott-Dawe C, Chen J, Zadinsky JK. Case-mix moderation of the relationship between OR performance metrics and utilization. AORN Journal 116:547-555, 2022

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Diez C, Fahy BG. Similarities between pediatric and general hospitals based on fundamental attributes of surgery including cases per surgeon per workday. Cureus 14:e21736, 2022  

Eun J, Tiwari V, Sandberg WS. Predicting daily surgical volumes using probabilistic estimates of providers’ future availability. Decision Sciences 53:124-149, 2022

Ghandehari N, Kianfar K. Mixed-integer linear programming, constraint programming and column generation approaches for operating room planning under block strategy. Applied Mathematical Modelling 105:438-453, 2022

Görgülü B, Sarhangian V. A newsvendor approach to design of surgical preference cards. Service Science 14:213-230, 2022

Harris S, Claudio D. Current trends in operating room scheduling 2015 to 2020: a literature review. Operations Research Forum 3:21, 2022

Hassanzadeh H, Boyle J, Khanna S, Biki B, Syed F. Daily surgery caseload prediction: towards improving operating theatre efficiency. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 22:151, 2022

Heider S, Schoenfelder J, Koperna T, Brunner JO. Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units. Health Care Management Science 25:311-332, 2022

Huang YL, Bansal A, Berg BP, Tommaso CP, Laughlin RS. Coordination of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring technologist and surgery schedules. Journal of Medical Systems 46:67, 2022

Jin Y, Long Y, Gao X, Stoyanov D, Dou Q, Heng PA. Trans-SVNet: hybrid embedding aggregation Transformer for surgical workflow analysis. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 17:2193-2202, 2022

Joseph A, Mihandoust S, Wingler D, Machry H, Allison D, Reeves ST. Comparing user perceptions of surgical environments: simulations in a high-fidelity physical mock-up versus a postoccupancy evaluation. HERD 15:116-133, 2022

Liu Y, Li Z. Dynamic-programming-based heuristic for multi-objective operating theater planning. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 18:111-135, 2022

Lofti M, Behnamian J. Collaborative scheduling of operating room in hospital network: multi-objective learning variable neighborhood search. Applied Soft Computing 116:108233, 2022

Ma Y, Liu K, Li Z, Chen X. Robust operating room scheduling model with violation probability consideration under uncertain surgery duration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:13685, 2022

Makboul S, Kharraja S, Abbassi A, Alaoui AEH. A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources. Health Care Management Science 25:63-88, 2022

Mazloumian M, Baki MF, Ahmadi M. A robust multiobjective integrated master surgery schedule and surgical case assignment model at a publicly funded hospital. Computers & Industrial Engineering 163:107826, 2022

Meyer MJ, Chafitz T, Wang K, Alamgir N, Malapati P, Gander JW, Ward DT, Gandhi S. Surgeons' perspectives on operating room waste: multicenter survey. Surgery 17:1142-1147, 2022

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Mignault A, Nguemeleu ET, Robins S, Maillet E, Matetsa E, Dupuis S. Automated intra-operative SMS message updates: a quality improvement initiative to relieve caregivers' worries. JMIR Perioperative Medicine 5:e36208, 2022

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Shehadeh KS, Padman R. Stochastic optimization approaches for elective surgery scheduling with downstream capacity constraints: Models, challenges, and opportunities. Computers and Operations Research 137:105523, 2022

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Silva-Aravena F, Morales J. Dynamic surgical waiting list methodology: a networking approach. Mathematics 10:2307, 2022

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Toor J, Bhangu A, Wolfstadt J, Bassi G, Chung S, Rampersaud R, Mitchell W, Milner J, Koyle M. Optimizing the surgical instrument tray to immediately increase efficiency and lower costs in the operating room. Canadian Journal of Surgery 65:E275-E281, 2022

Toor J, Du JT, Koyle M, Abbas A, Shah A, Bassi G, Morra D, Wolfstadt J. Inventory optimization in the perioperative care department using Kotter's Change Model. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 48:5-11, 2022

Tsai SC, Lin WH, Wu CC, Weng SJ, Tang CF. Decision support algorithms for optimizing surgery start times considering the performance variation. Health Care Management Science 25:208-221, 2022

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Wang JJ, Dai Z, Chang AC, Shi JJ. Surgical scheduling by fuzzy model considering inpatient beds shortage under uncertain surgery durations. Annals of Operations Research 315:463-505, 2022

Wang K, Yu C, Qin H. An adaptive-learning-based genetic algorithm for collaborative scheduling of distributed operating rooms. Applied Soft Computing 131:109755, 2022

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Xiao Y, Yoogalingam R. A simulation optimization approach for planning and scheduling in operating rooms for elective and urgent surgeries. Operations Research for Health Care 35:100366, 2022

Yang X, Gajpal Y, Roy V, Appadoo S. Tactical level operating theatre scheduling of elective surgeries for maximizing hospital performance. Computers and Industrial Engineering 174:108799, 2022

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Zheng H, Wang Q, Shen J, Kong Y, Li J. Modeling and analysis of operating room workflow in a tertiary A hospital. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7:7006-7013, 2022

Zhu L, Zhou Y, Sun S, Su Q. A discrete squirrel search algorithm for the surgical cases assignment problem. Applied Soft Computing 121:108753, 2022

Zhu T, Luo L, Shen W, Xu X, Kou R. Admission scheduling of inpatients by considering two inter-related resources: beds and operating rooms. Optimization 71:1637-1675, 2022

Zhu X, Xu Y, Hu X, Ye H, Xiao J. The application value and influence of integrated nursing of operating room and disinfection supply center combined with 6sigma management in operating room instruments. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 8490473, 2022

2021

Abdeljaoued MA, Bahroun Z, Saadani NEH. Short-term operating room scheduling: a parallel machine under resource constraints problem. International Journal of Operational Research 40:162-184, 2021

Alfred M, Catchpole K, Huffer E, Fredendall L, Taaffe KM. Work systems analysis of sterile processing: assembly. BMJ Quality and Safety 30:271-282, 2021

Aravazhi A. Hybrid machine learning models for forecasting surgical case volumes at a hospital. AI 2:512-526, 2021

Bansal A, Berg BP, Huang YL. A value function-based approach for robust surgery planning. Computers and Operations Research 132:105313, 2021

Britt J, Baki MF, Azab A, Chaouch A, Li X. A stochastic hierarchical approach for the master surgical scheduling problem. Computers and Industrial Engineering 158:107385, 2021

Carew S, Nagarajan M, Shechter S, Arneja J, Skarsgard E. Dynamic capacity allocation for elective surgeries: reducing urgency-weighted wait times. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 23:407-424, 2021

Deshpande NG, Witmer HDD, Keceli Ç, Adelman D, Turaga KK. Surgical team familiarity and waste generation in the operating room. The American Journal of Surgery 222:694-699, 2021

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Loftus RW. Quantifying and interpreting inequality of surgical site infections among operating rooms. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 68:812-824, 2021  

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Schwenk ES, Marian AA. Average number of anesthetics still in progress in the early evening increased at least proportionally to the numbers of anesthetizing locations in the morning: a retrospective, long-term longitudinal study at two large hospitals. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 25:100213, 2021  

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Shi P. Proportions of surgical patients discharged home the same or the next day are sufficient data to assess cases’ contributions to hospital occupancy. Cureus 13:e13826, 2021  

Elhajj AJ, Rizzo DM, An GC, Pandit JJ, Tsai MH. Monitoring perioperative services using 3D multi-objective performance frontiers. Journal of Medical Systems 45:34, 2021

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Fahy BG, Diez C. Most surgeons' daily elective lists in Florida comprise only 1 or 2 elective cases, making percent utilization unreliable for planning individual surgeons' block time. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 75:e110432, 2021

Glennie RA, Oxner WM, Alant J, Barry SP, Christie S. Case costing in spine surgery: can surgeons assist with accurate capture of operating room costs? Healthcare Management Forum 34:158-162, 2021

Higman L, Hearld LR, Carroll NW, O'Connor SJ, Szychowski J. Identifying the surgical profiles of U.S. acute care hospitals: a latent class analysis. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability 16:145-155, 2021

Hsu PY, Lo SH, Hwang HG, Lin BMT. Scheduling of anaesthesia operations in operating rooms. Healthcare 9:640, 2021

Kayvanfar V, Akbari Jokar MR, Rafiee M, Sheikh S, Iranzad R. A new model for operating room scheduling with elective patient strategy. Information Systems and Operational Research 59:309-332, 2021

Kheiri A, Lewis R, Thompson J, Harper P. Constructing operating theatre schedules using partitioned graph colouring techniques. Health Systems 10:286-297, 2021

Kushner BS, Hall B, Pierce A, Mody J, Guth RM, Martin J, Blatnik JA, Eckhouse SR. Reducing operating room cost: comparing attending and surgical trainee perceptions about the implementation of supply receipts. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 233:710-721, 2021

Li L, Yu Q, Shi H, Liu Y. Support optimal scheduling with weighted random forest for operation resources. Control Theory and Technology 19:484-498, 2021

Lin YK, Li MY. Solving operating room scheduling problem using artificial bee colony algorithm. Healthcare 9:152, 2021

Luo N, Nara A, Izumi K. An interaction-based Bayesian network framework for surgical workflow segmentation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:6401, 2021

Naderi B, Roshanaei V, Begen MA, Aleman DM, Urbach DR. Increased surgical capacity without additional resources: generalized operating room planning and scheduling. Production and Operations Management 30:2608-2635, 2021

Park J, Kim BI, Eom M, Choi BK. Operating room scheduling considering surgeons’ preferences and cooperative operations. Computers & Industrial Engineering 157:107306, 2021

Piersa AP, Tung A, Dutton RP, Shahul S, Glick DB. December is coming: a time trend analysis of monthly variation in adult elective anesthesia caseload across Florida and Texas locations of a large multistate practice. Anesthesiology 135:804-812, 2021

Rahimi I, Gandomi AH. A comprehensive review and analysis of operating room and surgery scheduling. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering 28:1667–1688, 2021

Ranney SE, Tsai MH, Breidenstein MW, Sexton KW, Malhotra AK. Using performance frontiers to differentiate elective and capacity-based surgical services. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 90:935-941, 2021

Roshanaei V, Naderi B. Solving integrated operating room planning and scheduling: logic-based benders decomposition versus branch-price-and-cut. European Journal of Operational Research 29365-78, 2021

Samuel JP, Reed A. The costing of operating theatre time in a secondary-level state sector hospital: a quantitative observational study. South African Medical Journal 111:595-600, 2021

Scheinker D, Hollingsworth M, Brody A, Phelps C, Bryant W, Pei F, Petersen K, Reddy A, Wall J. The design and evaluation of a novel algorithm for automated preference card optimization. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 28:1088-1097, 2021

Schiele J, Koperna T, Brunner JO. Predicting intensive care unit bed occupancy for integrated operating room scheduling via neural networks. Naval Research Logistics 68:65-88, 2021

Schoenfelder J, Kohl S, Glaser M, McRae S, Brunner JO, Koperna T. Simulation-based evaluation of operating room management policies. BMC Health Services Research 21:271, 2021

Spratt B, Kozan E. A real-time reactive framework for the surgical case sequencing problem. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 33:183-211, 2021

Taaffe K, Joseph A, Khoshkenar A, Machry H, Allison D, Reeves ST, RIPCHD.OR Study Group. Proactive evaluation of an operating room prototype: a simulation-based modeling approach. Journal of Patient Safety 17:e1833-e1839, 2021

Tavare A, Pandit JJ. Does anyone know how much NHS operating rooms cost? A survey of operating room managers' knowledge of costs and data. British Journal of Healthcare Management 27:1-11, 2021

Wang J, Guo H, Tsui KL. Two-stage robust optimisation for surgery scheduling considering surgeon collaboration. International Journal of Production Research 59:6437-6450, 2021

Wang L, Demeulemeester E, Vansteenkiste N, Rademakers FE. Operating room planning and scheduling for outpatients and inpatients: a review and future research. Operations Research for Health Care 31:100323, 2021

Watson DS, Corbett CF, Oneal G, Daratha KB. Reducing surgery scheduling errors in multihospital system. Journal of Patient Safety 17:e469-e474, 2021

Wu Q, Xie N, Shao Y. Day surgery appointment scheduling with patient preferences and stochastic operation duration. Technology and Health Care 29:697-708, 2021

Zhang B, Su Q. Dynamic surgery scheduling based on an improved genetic algorithm. Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2021:1559050, 2021

Zhang J, Dridi M, El Moudni A. A two-phase optimization model combining Markov decision process and stochastic programming for advance surgery scheduling. Computers and Industrial Engineering 160:107548, 2021

2020

Ahmed A, Ali H. Modeling patient preference in an operating room scheduling problem. Operations Research for Health Care 25:100257, 2020

Aissaoui NO, Khlif HH, Zeghal FM. Integrated proactive surgery scheduling in private healthcare facilities. Computers and Industrial Engineering 148:106686, 2020

Andersen AR, Stidsen TJR, Reinhardt LB. Simulation-based rolling horizon scheduling for operating theatres. SN Operations Research Forum 1:9, 2020

Atighehchian A, Sepehri MM, Shadpour P, Kianfar K. A two-step stochastic approach for operating rooms scheduling in multi-resource environment. Annals of Operations Research 292:191-214, 2020

Bam M, Zhang Z, Denton BT, Duck M, Van Oyen MP. Planning models for skills-sensitive surgical nurse staffing: a case study at a large academic medical center. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 10:277-293, 2020

Bandi C, Gupta D. Operating room staffing and scheduling. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 22:869-1106, 2020

Barrera J, Carrasco RA, Mondschein S, Canessa G, Rojas-Zalazar D. Operating room scheduling under waiting time constraints: the Chilean GES plan. Annals of Operations Research 286:501-527, 2020

Bauer M, Auhuber TC, Kraus R, Rüggeberg J, Wardemann K, Müller P, Taube C, Diemer M, Schuster M. The German perioperative procedural time glossary: a joint recommendation by the BDA, BDC, VOPM, VOPMÖ, ÖGARI and SFOPM. Anästh Intensivmed 61:516-531, 2020

Bovim TR, Christiansen M, Gullhav AN, Range TM, Hellemo L. Stochastic master surgery scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 285:695-711, 2020

Calegari R, Fogliatto FS, Lucini FR, Anzanello MJ, Schaan BD. Surgery scheduling heuristic considering OR downstream and upstream facilities and resources. BMC Health Services Research 20:684, 2020

Childers CP, Maggard-Gibbons M, Nuckols T. A comparison of costs: how California teaching hospitals achieved slower growth than nonteaching hospitals in operating room costs from 2005 to 2014. Academic Medicine 94:1539-1545, 2020

Coban E. The effect of multiple operating room scheduling on the sterilization schedule of reusable medical devices. Computers & Industrial Engineering 147:106618, 2020

Dekonenko C, Oyetunji TA, Rentea RM. Surgical tray reduction for cost saving in pediatric surgical cases: a qualitative systematic review. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 55:2435-2441, 2020

Dexter F, Elhakim M, Loftus RW, Seering MS, Epstein RH. Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 64:109854, 2020  

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Gostine AL, Penning DH, Loftus RW. Benefit of systematic selection of pairs of cases matched by surgical specialty for surveillance of bacterial transmission in operating room. American Journal of Infection Control 48:682-687, 2020

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Podgorski EM 3rd, Pearson ACS. Appropriate operating room time allocations and half-day block time for low caseload proceduralists, including anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians in the State of Florida. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 64:109817, 2020

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Shi P. Forecasting the probability that each surgical case will either be ambulatory or the patient will remain in the hospital overnight versus having a length of stay of two or more days. Cureus 12:e10847, 2020  

Dexter F, Ledolter J, Epstein RH, Loftus RW. Futility of cluster designs at individual hospitals to study surgical site infections and interventions involving the installation of capital equipment in operating rooms. Journal of Medical Systems 44:82, 2020  

Dexter F, Ledolter J, Epstein RH, Loftus RW. Importance of operating room case scheduling on analyses of observed reductions in surgical site infections from the purchase and installation of capital equipment in operating rooms. American Journal of Infection Control 48:566-572, 2020

Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wall RT, Datta S, Loftus RW. Sample sizes for surveillance of S. aureus transmission to monitor effectiveness and provide feedback on intraoperative infection control including for COVID-19. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 20:100115, 2020  

Dexter F, Parra MC, Brown JR, Loftus RW. Perioperative COVID-19 defense: an evidence-based approach for optimization of infection control and operating room management. Anesthesia & Analgesia 131:37-42, 2020  

Eggman AA, Veenendaal GD, Matchinsky KA, Ratajczak KL, Kelly JA, Swanson MJ. Predicting daily surgical volume for an academic medical center. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 19:100095, 2020

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Smaka T. Obtaining and modeling variability in travel times from off-site satellite clinics to hospitals and surgery centers for surgeons and proceduralists seeing office patients in the morning and performing a to-follow list of cases in the afternoon. Anesthesia & Analgesia 131:228-238, 2020  

Epstein RH, Dexter F, Smaka TJ, Candiotti KA. Policy implications for the COVID-19 pandemic in light of most patients (>72%) spending at most one night at the hospital after elective, major therapeutic procedures. Cureus 12:e9746, 2020  

Goldstein BA, Cerullo M, Krishnamoorthy V, Blitz J, Mureebe L, Webster W, Dunston F, Stirling A, Gagnon J, Scales Jr. CD. Development and performance of a clinical decision support tool to inform resource utilization for elective operations. JAMA Network Open 3:e2023547, 2020

Hamid M, Tavakkoli-Moghaddam R, Vahedi-Nouri B, Arbabi H. A mathematical model for integrated operating room and surgical member scheduling considering lunch break. International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering 9:304-312, 2020

Heider S, Schoenfelder J, McRae S, Koperna T, Brunner JO. Tactical scheduling of surgeries to level bed utilization in the intensive care unit: tactical scheduling of surgeries to level bed utilization in the intensive care unit. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 10:229-242, 2020

Jiang YP, Yuan DN. Surgeon-patient matching based on pairwise comparisons information for elective surgery. Computers and Industrial Engineering 145:106438, 2020

Khaleghi T, Murat A, Arslanturk S, Davies E. Automated surgical term clustering: a text mining approach for unstructured textual surgery descriptions. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 24:2107-2118, 2020

Khaniyev T, Kayis E, Güllü R. Next-day operating room scheduling with uncertain surgery durations: exact analysis and heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research 286:49-62, 2020

Lin YK, Chou YY. A hybrid genetic algorithm for operating room scheduling. Health Care Management Science 23:249-263, 2020

McRae S, Brunner JO. Assessing the impact of uncertainty and the level of aggregation in case mix planning. Omega 97:102086, 2020

Moosavi A, Ebrahimnejad S. Robust operating room planning considering upstream and downstream units: a new two-stage heuristic algorithm. Computers and Industrial Engineering 143:106387, 2020

Mustafa AM, Day S, Higginson J, Sharp I. Determinants of lost theatre capacity. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 58:1139-1144, 2020

Najjarbashi A, Lim GJ. A decomposition algorithm for the two-stage chance-constrained operating room scheduling problem. IEEE Access 8:80160-80172, 2020

Neumann J, Angrick C, Höhn C, Zajonz D, Ghanem M, Roth A, Neumuth T. Surgical workflow simulation for the design and assessment of operating room setups in orthopedic surgery. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 20:145, 2020

Nino V, Claudio D, Valladares L, Harris S. An enhanced Kaizen event in a sterile processing department of a rural hospital: a case study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17:8748, 2020

Oliveira M, Bélanger V, Marques I, Ruiz A. Assessing the impact of patient prioritization on operating room schedules. Operations Research for Health Care 24:100232, 2020

Palter VN, Simpson AN, Young G, Lee JY, Grantcharov TP, Shore EM. Operating room utilization: a retrospective analysis of perioperative delays. Journal of Gynecologic Surgery 36:109-114, 2020

Park H, Kim S, Bong M, Choi D, Kim W, Ku S, Ro YJ, Choi I. Optimization of the operating room scheduling process for improving efficiency in a tertiary hospital. Journal of Medical Systems 44:171, 2020

Patel NP, Hudson ME, Mayhew CR, Breidenstein MW, Marmanides AP, Tsai MH. Ramifications of a nursing strike on operating room efficiency. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 21:100101, 2020

Roshanaei V, Booth KEC, Aleman DM, Urbach DR, Beck JC. Branch-and-check methods for multi-level operating room planning and scheduling. International Journal of Production Economics 220:107433, 2020

Roshanaei V, Luong C, Aleman DM, Urbach DR. Reformulation, linearization, and decomposition techniques for balanced distributed operating room scheduling. Omega 93:102043, 2020

Schneider AJT, van Essen JT, Carlier M, Hans EW. Scheduling surgery groups considering multiple downstream resources. European Journal of Operational Research 282:741-752, 2020

Seelen MT, Edwards K, Bruce A, Rogers K, Landrigan C, Dufrene C, Calkins A, Manning M, Dunn PF. Reducing undocumented supplies in hybrid ORs through multidisciplinary process improvement. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 18:100087, 2020

Shehadeh KS, Cohn AEM, Jiang R. A distributionally robust optimization approach for outpatient colonoscopy scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 283:549-561, 2020

Silva TAO, de Souza MC. Surgical scheduling under uncertainty by approximate dynamic programming. Omega 95:102066, 2020

Silverstein ML, Ferris MB, Elhajj AJ, Peckham BJ, Steinthorsson G, Tsai MH. Does implementation of a surgical fellowship program increase productivity? A retrospective analysis using operating room management metric and statistical process control. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 18:100081, 2020

Sorber R, Dougherty G, Stobierski D, Kang C, Hicks CW, Lum YW. Cost awareness of common supplies is severely impaired among all members of the surgical team. Journal of Surgical Research 251:281-286, 2020

Spratt B, Kozan E, Sinnott M. Analysis of uncertainty in the surgical department: durations, requests and cancellations. Australian Health Review 43:706-711, 2020

Tonna JE, Hanson HA, Cohan JN, McCrum ML, Horns JJ, Brooke BS, Das R, Kelly BC, Campbell AJ, Hotaling J. Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the US during COVID-19. BMC Health Services Research 20:1119, 2020

Tsai MH, Hall MA, Cardinal MS, Breidenstein MW, Abajian MJ, Zubarik RS. Changing anesthesia block allocations improves endoscopy suite efficiency. Journal of Medical Systems 44:1, 2020

Varmazyar M, Akhavan-Tabatabaei R, Salmasi N, Modarres M. Operating room scheduling problem under uncertainty: application of continuous phase-type distributions. IISE Transactions 52:216-235, 2020

Wan J, Li X, Chu J, Tsui KL. A two-stage approach for resource allocation and surgery scheduling with assistant surgeons. IEEE Access 8:49487-49496, 2020

Wang Z, Dexter F, Zenios SA. Caseload is increased by resequencing cases before and on the day of surgery at ambulatory surgery centers where initial patient recovery is in operating rooms and cleanup times are longer than typical. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 67:110024, 2020  

Zhang J, Dridi M, El Moudni A. Column-generation-based heuristic approaches to stochastic surgery scheduling with downstream capacity constraints. International Journal of Production Economics 229:107764, 2020

Zhang Y, Wang Y, Tang J, Lim A. Mitigating overtime risk in tactical surgical scheduling. Omega 93:102024, 2020

2019

Ahmadi E, Masel DT, Hostetler S. A robust stochastic decision-making model for inventory allocation of surgical supplies to reduce logistics costs in hospitals: a case study. Operations Research for Health Care 20:33-44, 2019

Ahmadi E, Masel DT, Schwerha D, Hostetler S. A bi-objective optimization approach for configuring surgical trays with ergonomic risk consideration. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 9:327-341, 2019

Akbarzadeh B, Moslehi G, Reisi-Nafchi M, Maenhout B. The re-planning and scheduling of surgical cases in the operating room department after block release time with resource rescheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 278:596-614, 2019

Al Hasan H, Guéret C, Lemoine D, Rivreau D. Surgical case scheduling with sterilising activity constraints. International Journal of Production Research 57:2984-3002, 2019

Assad DBN, Spiegel T. Maximizing the efficiency of residents operating room scheduling: a case study at a teaching hospital. Production 29:e20190025, 2019

Bai M, Pasupathy KS, Sir MY. Pattern-based strategic surgical capacity allocation. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 94:103170, 2019

Ballestín F, Pérez Á, Quintanilla S. Scheduling and rescheduling elective patients in operating rooms to minimise the percentage of tardy patients. Journal of Scheduling 22:107-118, 2019

Barnea R, Voronenko L, Zu L, Reychav I, Weiss Y. Analyzing operating room utilization in a private medical center in Israel. The Israel Medical Association Journal 21:644-648, 2019

Behmanesh R, Zandieh M. Surgical case scheduling problem with fuzzy surgery time: an advanced bi-objective ant system approach. Knowledge-Based Systems 186:104913, 2019

Chiang AJ, Jeang A, Chiang PC, Chiang PS, Chung CP. Multi-objective optimization for simultaneous operating room and nursing unit scheduling. International Journal of Engineering Business Management 11:1-20, 2019

Childers CP, Hofer IS, Cheng DS, Maggard-Gibbons M. Evaluating surgeons on intraoperative disposable supply costs: details matter. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 23:2054-2062, 2019

Deng Y, Shen S, Denton B. Chance-constrained surgery planning under conditions of limited and ambiguous data. INFORMS Journal on Computing 31:559-575, 2019

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Rodriguez LI. Throughout the United States, pediatric patients undergoing ambulatory surgery enter the operating room and are discharged earlier in the day than are adults. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 16:100076, 2019  

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Device implantation rates during inpatient surgery differ among payers at critical access versus other hospitals. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 14:5-10, 2019  

Dexter F, Park S-H, Epstein RH, Sun E, O'Neill L. Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater production of such inpatient surgical procedures. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 17:100079, 2019  

Eun J, Kim SP, Yih Y, Tiwari V. Scheduling elective surgery patients considering time-dependent health urgency: modeling and solution approaches. Omega 86:137-153, 2019

Gür S, Eren T, Alakas HM. Surgical operation scheduling with goal programming and constraint programming: a case study. Mathematics 7:251, 2019

Hamid M, Hamid M, Musavi MM, Azadeh A. Scheduling elective patients based on sequence-dependent setup times in an open-heart surgical department using an optimization and simulation approach. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 95:1141-1164, 2019

Hamid M, Nasiri MM, Werner F, Sheikhahmadi F, Zhalechian M. Operating room scheduling by considering the decision-making styles of surgical team members: a comprehensive approach. Computers & Operations Research 108:166-181, 2019

Kamran MA, Karimi B, Dellaert N, Demeulemeester E. Adaptive operating rooms planning and scheduling: a rolling horizon approach. Operations Research for Health Care 22:100200, 2019

Liu L, Wang C, Wang J. A combinatorial auction mechanism for surgical scheduling considering surgeon’s private availability information. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 37:405-417, 2019

Lu Q, Zhu X, Wei D, Bai K, Gao J, Zhang R. Multi-phase and integrated multi-objective cyclic operating room scheduling based on an improved NSGA-II approach. Symmetry 11:599, 2019

Luo Y, Wang B. A new method of block allocation used in two-stage operating rooms scheduling. IEEE Access 7:102820-102831, 2019

Marques I, Captivo ME, Barros N. Optimizing the master surgery schedule in a private hospital. Operations Research for Health Care 20:11-24, 2019

M'Hallah R, Visintin F. A stochastic model for scheduling elective surgeries in a cyclic master surgical schedule. Computers & Industrial Engineering 129:156-168, 2019

Moons K, Waeyenbergh G, Pintelon L, Timmermans P, De Ridder D. Performance indicator selection for operating room supply chains: an application of ANP. Operations Research for Health Care 23:100229, 2019

Najjarbashi A, Lim GJ. A variability reduction method for the operating room scheduling problem under uncertainty using CVaR. Operations Research for Health Care 20:25-32, 2019

Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Narimatsu H, Yoshimura T, Otake H, Sawa T. Japanese surgical resource utilization in 2016. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 32:1013-1021, 2019

Nasiri MM, Shakouhi F, Jolai F. A fuzzy robust stochastic mathematical programming approach for multi-objective scheduling of the surgical cases. OPSEARCH 56:890-910, 2019

O'Neill L, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Limited intragenerational mobility of surgical caseload of Iowa hospitals. Journal of Medical Systems 43:187, 2019  

Otten M, Braaksma A, Boucherie RJ. Minimizing earliness/ tardiness costs on multiple machines with an application to surgery scheduling. Operations Research for Health Care 22:100194, 2019

Pang B, Xie X, Song Y, Luo L. Surgery scheduling under case cancellation and surgery duration uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 16:74-86, 2019

Rambourg J, Gaspard-Boulinc H, Conversy S, Garbey M. A continuum of interfaces to engage surgical staff in efficient collaboration. Journal of Medical Systems 43:184, 2019

Rose ED, Modlin DM, Ciampa ML, Mangieri CW, Faler BJ, Bandera BC. Evaluation of operative waste in a military medical center: analysis of operating room cost and waste during surgical cases. The American Surgeon 85:717-720, 2019

Saeedian M, Sepehri MM, Jalalimanesh A, Shadpour P. Operating room orchestration by using agent-based simulation. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 15:100074, 2019

Shafaei R, Mozdgir A. Master surgical scheduling problem with multiple criteria and robust estimation. Scientia Iranica 26:486-502, 2019

Song M, Zhang Y, Zhu Y. Multiple due time surgical scheduling with truncated learning and deteriorating effect. IEEE Access 7:134574-134582, 2019

Soudi A, Heydari M, Mahdavi Mazdeh M. A new approach for integrated surgical procedure scheduling with arrival uncertainty. International Journal of Operational Research 34:430-449, 2019

Soudi A, Heydari M. Generating a stable primary schedule for an integrated surgical suite. International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics 11:174-203, 2019

Torres-Landa S, Neylan C, Quinlan K, Klock C, Jefferson C, Williams NN, Caskey RC, Greulich S, Kolb G, Morgan C, Mahoney K, Dumon KR. Interprofessional simulations to inform perioperative facility planning and design. Journal of Surgical Education 76:223-233, 2019

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Tang J. A distributionally robust optimization approach for surgery block allocation. European Journal of Operational Research 273:740-753, 2019

Wu X, Shen X, Zhang L. Solving the planning and scheduling problem simultaneously in a hospital with a bi-layer discrete particle swarm optimization. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 16:831-861, 2019

Younespour M, Atighehchian A, Kianfar K, Esfahani ET. Using mixed integer programming and constraint programming for operating rooms scheduling with modified block strategy. Operations Research for Health Care 23:100220, 2019

Zhang J, Dridi M, El Moudni A. A two-level optimization model for elective surgery scheduling with downstream capacity constraints. European Journal of Operational Research 276:602-613, 2019

Zhang J, Dridi M, El Moudni A. A Markov decision model with dead ends for operating room planning considering dynamic patient priority. RAIRO-Operations Research 53:1819-1841, 2019

Zhu S, Fan W, Yang S, Pei J, Pardalos PM. Operating room planning and surgical case scheduling: a review of literature. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 37:757-805, 2019

Zhu X, Yuan L, Li T, Cheng P. Errors in packaging surgical instruments based on a surgical instrument tracking system: an observational study. BMC Health Services Research 19:176, 2019

2018

Anjomshoa H, Dumitrescu I, Lustig I, Smith OJ. An exact approach for tactical planning and patient selection for elective surgeries. European Journal of Operational Research 268:728-739, 2018

Ansarifar J, Tavakkoli-Moghaddam R, Akhavizadegan F, Hassanzadeh Amin S. Multi-objective integrated planning and scheduling model for operating rooms under uncertainty. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 232:930-948, 2018

Askarizadeh M, Aziz FA. Planning and scheduling operating rooms with mix integer programming and meta-heuristic method. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 15:961-965, 2018

Bayramzadeh S, Joseph A, Allison D, Shultz J, Abernathy J, RIPCHD.OR Study Group. Using an integrative mock-up simulation approach for evidence-based evaluation of operating room design prototypes. Applied Ergonomics 70:288-299, 2018

Belkhamsa M, Jarboui B, Masmoudi M. Two metaheuristics for solving no-wait operating room surgery scheduling problem under various resource constraints. Computers & Industrial Engineering 126:494-506, 2018

Boggs SD, Tsai MH, Urman RD, The Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors. The Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (AACD) glossary of times used for scheduling and monitoring of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Journal of Medical Systems 42:171, 2018

Cappanera P, Visintin F, Banditori C. Addressing conflicting stakeholders’ priorities in surgical scheduling by goal programming. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 30:252-271, 2018

Chabouh S, Hammami S, Marcon E, Bouchriha H. Appointment scheduling of inpatients and outpatients in a multistage integrated surgical suite: application to a Tunisian ophthalmology surgery department. Journal of Simulation 12:67-75, 2018

Chasseigne V, Leguelinel-Blache G, Nguyen TL, de Tayrac R, Prudhomme M, Kinowski JM, Costa P. Assessing the costs of disposable and reusable supplies wasted during surgeries. International Journal of Surgery 53:18-23, 2018

Childers CP, Maggard-Gibbons M. Understanding costs of care in the operating room. JAMA Surgery 153:e176233, 2018

Childers CP, Showen A, Nuckols T, Maggard-Gibbons M. Interventions to reduce intraoperative costs: a systematic review. Annals of Surgery 268:48-57, 2018

Criss CN, Brown J, Gish JS, Gadepalli SK, Hirschl RB. Clinic-day surgery for children: a patient and staff perspective. Pediatric Surgery International 34:755-761, 2018

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Ledolter J, Wanderer JP. Interchangeability of counts of cases and hours of cases for quantifying a hospital's change in workload among four-week periods of 1 year. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 49:118-125, 2018

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Lubarsky DA. Hospitals with greater diversities of physiologically complex procedures do not achieve greater surgical growth in a market with stable numbers of such procedures. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 46:67-73, 2018

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Thenuwara L, Lubrasky DA. Large variability in the diversity of physiologically complex surgical procedures exists nationwide among all hospitals including among large teaching hospitals. Anesthesia & Analgesia 127:190-197, 2018  

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Influence of annual meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and of large national surgical societies on caseloads of major therapeutic procedures. Journal of Medical Systems 42:259, 2018  

Dexter F, Jarvie C, Epstein RH. Heterogeneity among hospitals statewide in percentage shares of the annual growth of surgical caseloads of inpatient and outpatient major therapeutic procedures. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 49:126-130, 2018

Fogliatto FS, Anzanello MJ, Tortorella GL, Schneider DSS, Pereira CGR, Schaan BD. A six sigma approach to analyze time-to-assembly variance of surgical trays in a sterile services department. Journal for Healthcare Quality 40:e46-e53, 2018

Freeman N, Zhao M, Melouk S. An iterative approach for case mix planning under uncertainty. Omega 76:160-173, 2018

Gür S, Eren T. Application of operational research techniques in operating room scheduling problems: literature overview. Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2018:5341394, 2018

Herron JBT, French R, Gilliam AD. Extended operating times are more efficient, save money and maintain a high staff and patient satisfaction. Journal of Perioperative Practice 28:231-237, 2018

Huang WT, Chen PS, Liu JJ, Chen YR, Chen YH. Dynamic configuration scheduling problem for stochastic medical resources. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 80:96-105, 2018

Kamran MA, Karimi B, Dellaert N. Uncertainty in advance scheduling problem in operating room planning. Computers & Industrial Engineering 126:252-268, 2018

Khlif Hachicha H, Zeghal Mansour F. Two-MILP models for scheduling elective surgeries within a private healthcare facility. Health Care Management Science 21:376-392, 2018

Koppka L, Wiesche L, Schacht M, Werners B. Optimal distribution of operating hours over operating rooms using probabilities. European Journal of Operational Research 267:1156-1171, 2018

Kroer LR, Foverskov K, Vilhelmsen C, Skouboe Hansen A, Larsen J. Planning and scheduling operating rooms for elective and emergency surgeries with uncertain duration. Operations Research for Health Care 19:107-119, 2018

Leeftink G, Hans EW. Case mix classification and a benchmark set for surgery scheduling. Journal of Scheduling 21:17-33, 2018

Logvinov II, Dexter F, Dexter EU, Brull SJ. Patient survey of referral from one surgeon to another to reduce maximum waiting time for elective surgery and hours of over-utilized operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 126:1249-1256, 2018  

Mateus C, Marques I, Captivo ME. Local search heuristics for a surgical case assignment problem. Operations Research for Health Care 17:71-81, 2018

Molina-Pariente JM, Hans EW, Framinan JM. A stochastic approach for solving the operating room scheduling problem. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 30:224-251, 2018

Moosavi A, Ebrahimnejad S. Scheduling of elective patients considering upstream and downstream units and emergency demand using robust optimization. Computers & Industrial Engineering 120:216-233, 2018

Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Narimatsu H, Yoshimura T, Otake H, Sawa T. Influence of the revision of surgical fee schedule on surgeons' productivity in Japan: A cohort analysis of 7602 surgical procedures in 2013-2016. Health Services Management Research 31:51-56, 2018

Olson JK, Deming LA, King DR, Rager TM, Gartner S, Huibregtse N, Moss RL, Besner GE. Single visit surgery for pediatric ambulatory surgical procedures: a satisfaction and cost analysis. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 53:81-85, 2018

Ozer R, Richards G. Optimizing surgical capacity for a rural hospital through Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Healthcare Quality 40: e1-e8, 2018

Seelen MT, Daily B, Dunn P. Optimizing the use of operating rooms through retrospective gap analysis. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 12:35-38, 2018

Staiger RD, Cimino M, Javed A, Biondo S, Fondevila C, Périnel J, Aragão AC, Torzilli G, Wolfgang C, Adham M, Pinto-Marques H, Dutkowski P, Puhan MA, Clavien PA. The Comprehensive Complication Index is a novel cost assessment tool for surgical procedures. Annals of Surgery 268:784-791, 2018

Taaffe K, Fredendall L, Weiss R. Managing service-specific and open-posting block sizes when allocating operating room time. Quality Management Journal 25:18-31, 2018

Tankard K, Acciavatti TD, Vacanti JC, Heydarpour M, Beutler SS, Flanagan HL, Urman RD. Contributors to operating room underutilization and implications for hospital administrators. The Health Care Manager 37:118-128, 2018

Tsai MH, Breidenstein MW, Flanagan TF, Seong A, Kadry B, Rizzo DM, Urman RD. Applying performance frontiers in operating room management: a tutorial using data from an academic medical center. A&A Practice 11:321-327, 2018

Turnbull GS, Hakimi M, McLauchlan GJ. Trauma theatre productivity – Does the individual surgeon, anaesthetist or consultant presence matter? Injury 49:969-974, 2018

Vali-Siar MM, Gholami S, Ramezanian R. Multi-period and multi-resource operating room scheduling under uncertainty: a case study. Computers & Industrial Engineering 126:549-568, 2018

VonAchen P, Hayward RA, Norton EC, Denton B, Ellimoottil C. The challenge of measuring surgeon spending for payment policies. Annals of Surgery 268:903-907, 2018

Wang J, Guo H, Bakker M, Tsui KL. An integrated approach for surgery scheduling under uncertainty. Computers & Industrial Engineering 118:1-8, 2018

Wang Y, Zhang G, Zhang L, Tang J, Mu H. A column-generation based approach for integrating surgeon and surgery scheduling. IEEE Access 6:41578-41589, 2018

Xiao G, van Jaarsveld W, Dong M, van de Klundert J. Models, algorithms and performance analysis for adaptive operating room scheduling. International Journal of Production Research 56:1389-1413, 2018

Yip K, Leung L, Yeung D. Levelling bed occupancy: reconfiguring surgery schedules via simulation. International Journal of Health Care 31:864-876, 2018

Zeng Z, Brennan RW, Freiheit T. Tactical operating room planning based on system transient performance control. Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy 1:031004, 2018

Zinouri N, Taaffe KM, Neyens DM. Modelling and forecasting daily surgical case volume using time series analysis. Health Systems 7:111-119, 2018

2017

Balzer C, Raackow D, Hahnenkamp K, Flessa S, Meissner K. Timeliness of operating room case planning and time utilization: influence of first and to-follow cases. Frontiers in Medicine 4:49, 2017

Beaussier M, Albaladejo P, Sciard D, Jouffroy L, Benhamou D, Ecoffey C, Aubrun F, SFAR committee of ambulatory anaesthesia. Operation and organisation of ambulatory surgery in France. Results of a nationwide survey; the opera study. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine 36:353-357, 2017

Berg BP, Denton BT. Fast approximation methods for online scheduling of outpatient procedure centers. Informs Journal on Computing 29:631-644, 2017

Collins WO, Davies L, Skorupski D. Protocols for distribution of new operating room block time. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 7:18-23, 2017

Dellaert N, Jeunet J. A variable neighborhood search algorithm for the surgery tactical planning problem. Computers & Operations Research 84:216-225, 2017

Dexter F, Jarvie C, Epstein RH. At most hospitals in the state of Iowa, most surgeons’ daily lists of elective cases include only 1 or 2 cases: Individual surgeons’ percentage operating room utilization is a consistently unreliable metric. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 42:88-92, 2017

Di Martinelly C, Meskens N. A bi-objective integrated approach to building surgical teams and nurse schedule rosters to maximise surgical team affinities and minimise nurses' idle time. International Journal of Production Economics 191:323-334, 2017

Durán G, Rey PA, Wolff P. Solving the operating room scheduling problem with prioritized lists of patients. Annals of Operations Research 258:395-414, 2017

Engelmann C, Grote G, Geyer S, Ametowobla D. Operating listings are created by rational algorithms and use of power. What can a social scientific view offer surgeons? Langenbecks Archives of Surgery 402:187-190, 2017

Gantwerker EA, Bannos C, Cunningham MJ, Rahbar R. Surgical scheduling categorization system (SSCS): A novel classification system to improve coordination and scheduling of operative cases in a tertiary pediatric medical system. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 92:156-160, 2017

Guido R, Conforti D. A hybrid genetic approach for solving an integrated multi-objective operating room planning and scheduling problem. Computers & Operations Research 87:270-282, 2017

Harvey LFB, Smith KA, Curlin H. Physician engagement in improving operative supply chain efficiency through review of surgeon preference cards. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology 24:1116-1120, 2017

Hassanain M, Zamakhshary M, Farhat G, Al-Badr A. Use of Lean methodology to improve operating room efficiency in hospitals across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The International Journal of Heatlh Planning and Management 32:133-146, 2017

Hooshmand F, MirHassani SA, Akhavein A. A scenario-based approach for master surgery scheduling under uncertainty. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 16:177-203, 2017

Huang AY, Joerger G, Fikfak V, Salmon R, Dunkin BJ, Bass BL, Garbey M. The SmartOR: a distributed sensor network to improve operating room efficiency. Surgical Endoscopy 31:3590-3595, 2017

Jebali A, Diabat A. A chance-constrained operating room planning with elective and emergency cases under downstream capacity constraints. Computer & Industrial Engineering 114:329-344, 2017

Luo L, Luo Y, Qin C. Admission control policies for surgery patients. Journal of Medical Systems 41:131, 2017

Maktabi M, Neumuth T. Online time and resource management based on surgical workflow time series analysis. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 12:325-338, 2017

Marques I, Captivo ME. Different stakeholders' perspectives for a surgical case assignment problem: deterministic and robust approaches. European Journal of Operational Research 261:260-278, 2017

Neyshabouri S, Berg B. Two-stage robust optimization approach to elective surgery and downstream capacity planning. European Journal of Operational Research 260:21-40, 2017

O’Neill L, Dexter F, Park SH, Epstein RH. Discharges with surgical procedures performed less often than once per month per hospital account for two-thirds of hospital costs of inpatient surgery. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 41:99-103, 2017

O'Neill L, Dexter F, Park SH, Epstein RH. Uncommon combinations of ICD10-PCS or ICD-9-CM operative procedure codes account for most inpatient surgery at half of Texas hospitals. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 41:65-70, 2017

Ozcan YA, Tànfani E, Testi A. Improving the performance of surgery-based clinical pathways: a simulation-optimization approach. Health Care Management Science 20:1-15, 2017

Penn ML, Potts CN, Harper PR. Multiple criteria mixed-integer programming for incorporating multiple factors into the development of master operating theatre timetables. European Journal of Operational Research 262:194-206, 2017

Rachuba S, Werners B. A fuzzy multi-criteria approach for robust operating room schedules. Annals of Operations Research 251:325-350, 2017

Rath S, Rajaram K, Mahajan A. Integrated anesthesiologist and room scheduling for surgeries: methodology and application. Operations Research 65:1460-1478, 2017

Roshanaei V, Luong C, Aleman DM, Urbach DR. Collaborative operating room planning and scheduling. INFORMS Journal on Computing 29:558-580, 2017

Roshanaei V, Luonga C, Aleman DM, Urbach D. Propagating logic-based Benders’ decomposition approaches for distributed operating room scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 257:439-455, 2017

Samudra M, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B, Vansteenkiste N, Rademakers FE. Due time driven surgery scheduling. Health Care Management Science 20:326-352, 2017

Soh KW, Walker C, O'Sullivan M. A literature review on validated simulations of the surgical services. Journal of Medical Systems 41:61, 2017

Subramanian A, Adler JT, Shah ND, Hyder JA. Hospital rating systems and implications for patient travel to better-rated hospitals. Annals of Surgery 265:e23-e25, 2017

Wu A, Sanford JA, Tsai MH, O'Donnell SE, Tran BK, Urman RD. Analysis to establish differences in efficiency metrics between operating room and non-operating room anesthesia cases. Journal of Medical Systems 41:120, 2017

Xiang W. A multi-objective ACO for operating room scheduling optimization. Natural Computing 16:607-617, 2017

Zhang Z, Li C, Wang M, Wu Q. A hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for operating room assignment problem. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 7:47-54, 2017

Zygourakis CC, Valencia V, Moriates C, Boscardin CK, Catschegn S, Rajkomar A, Bozic KJ, Soo Hoo K, Goldberg AN, Pitts L, Lawton MT, Dudley RA, Gonzales R. Association between surgeon scorecard use and operating room costs. JAMA Surgery 152:284-291, 2017

2016

Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi S, Jamshidi A, Ruiz A, Ait-kadi D. A new dynamic integrated framework for surgical patients' prioritization considering risks and uncertainties. Decision Support Systems 88:112-120, 2016

Abedini A, Ye H, Li W. Operating room planning under surgery type and priority constraints. Procedia Manufacturing 5:15-25, 2016

Bacon DR, Stewart KA. Results of the 2016 AORN salary and compensation survey. AORN Journal 104:486-501, 2016

Brenn BR, Choudhry DK, Sacks K. Outpatient outcomes and satisfaction in pediatric population: data from the postoperative phone call. Paediatric Anaesthesia 26:158-163, 2016

Chernov M, Pullockaran J, Vick A, Leyvi G, Delphin E. Integrated practice improvement solutions-practical steps to operating room management. Journal of Investigative Surgery 29:316-321, 2016

Doulabi SHH, Rousseau LM, Pesant G. A constraint-programming-based branch-and-price-and-cut approach for operating room planning and scheduling. INFORMS Journal on Computing 28:432-448, 2016

Ezzat AE, Hamoud HS. Analytic hierarchy process as module for productivity evaluation and decision-making of the operation theater. Avicenna Journal of Medicine 6:3-7, 2016

Farzad G, Saidi-Mehrabad M. A stochastic surgery sequencing model considering the moral and human virtues. Modern Applied Science 10:68-80, 2016

Fügener A, Edenharter GM, Kiefer P, Mayr U, Schiele J, Steiner F, Kolisch R, Blobner M. Improving intensive care unit and ward utilization by adapting master surgery schedules. A & A Case Reports 6:172-180, 2016

Gauthier JB, Legrain A. Operating room management under uncertainty. Constraints 21:577-596, 2016

Guo M, Wu S, Li B, Song J, Rong Y. Integrated scheduling of elective surgeries and surgical nurses for operating room suites. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 28:166-181, 2016

Helkiö P, Aantaa R, Virolainen P, Tuominen R. Productivity benchmarks for operative service units. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 60:450-456, 2016

Heydari M, Soudi A. Predictive / reactive planning and scheduling of a surgical suite with emergency patient arrival. Journal of Medical Systems 40:30, 2016

Huang AY, Joerger G, Salmon R, Dunkin B, Sherman V, Bass BL, Garbey M. A robust and non-obtrusive automatic event tracking system for operating room management to improve patient care. Surgical Endoscopy 30:3638-3645, 2016

Hultman CS. Procedural portfolio planning in plastic surgery, part 1: strategic changes in clinical practice to increase physician revenue, improve operative throughput, and maintain patient satisfaction. Annals of Plastic Surgery 76 Suppl 4:S344-S346, 2016

Hultman CS. Procedural portfolio planning in plastic surgery, part 2: collaboration between surgeons and hospital administrators to develop a funds flow model for procedures performed at an academic medical center. Annals of Plastic Surgery 76 Supplement 4:S347-S351, 2016

Ito M, Suzuki A, Fujiwara Y. A prototype operating room scheduling system. Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association 67:202-214, 2016

Jackson CR, Eavey RD, Francis DO. Surgeon awareness of operating room supply costs. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology 125:369-377, 2016

Jittamai P, Kangwansura T. A hospital admission planning model for operating room allocation under uncertain demand requirements. International Journal of Services and Operations Management 23:235-256, 2016

Landa P, Aringhieri R, Soriano P, Tànfani E, Testi A. A hybrid optimization algorithm for surgeries scheduling. Operations Research for Health Care 8:103-114, 2016

Latorre-Núñez G, Lüer-Villagra A, Marianov V, Obreque C, Ramis F, Neriz L. Scheduling operating rooms with consideration of all resources, post anesthesia beds and emergency surgeries. Computers & Industrial Engineering 97:248-257, 2016

Li F, Gupta D, Potthoff S. Improving operating room schedules. Health Care Management Science 19:261-278, 2016

Lim GJ, Mobasher A, Bard JF, Najjarbashi A. Nurse scheduling with lunch break assignments in operating suites. Operations Research for Health Care 10:35-48, 2016

Luo L, Luo Y, You Y, Cheng Y, Shi Y, Gong R. A MIP model for rolling horizon surgery scheduling. Journal of Medical Systems 40:127, 2016

Nemati S, Shylo OV, Prokopyev OA, Schaefer AJ. The surgical patient routing problem: a central planner approach. INFORMS Journal on Computing 28:657-673, 2016

Ozen A, Marmor Y, Rohleder T, Balasubramanian H, Huddleston J, Huddleston P. Optimization and simulation of orthopedic spine surgery cases at Mayo Clinic. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 18:157-175, 2016

Samudra M, Van Riet C, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B, Vansteenkiste N, Rademakers FE. Scheduling operating rooms: achievements, challenges and pitfalls. Journal of Scheduling 19:493-525, 2016

Sanford JA, Tsai MH, Kadry B, Mayhew CR, Adams DC. The July spike in operating room management: reality or perception? Journal of Graduate Medical Education 8:244-247, 2016

Sarin SC, Sherali HD, Kim SK. A hospital staff scheduling problem under stochastic operation times. International Journal of Planning and Scheduling 2:210-232, 2016

Shi P, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Comparing policies for case scheduling within one day of surgery by Markov chain models. Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:526-538, 2016  

Spratt B, Kozan E. Waiting list management through master surgical schedules: a case study. Operations Research for Health Care 10:49-64, 2016

Tsai MH, Haddad DJ, Friend AF, Bender SP, Davidson ML. A web-based operating room management educational tool. A & A Case Reports 7:60-62, 2016

van Veen-Berkx E, van Dijk MV, Cornelisse DC, Kazemier G, Mokken FC. Scheduling anesthesia time reduces case cancellations and improves operating room workflow in a university hospital setting. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 223:343-351, 2016

Villareal MC, Keskinocak P. Staff planning for operating rooms with different surgical services lines. Health Care Management Science 19:144-169, 2016

Visintin F, Cappanera P, Banditori C. Evaluating the impact of flexible practices on the master surgical scheduling process: an empirical analysis. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 28:182-205, 2016

Wang S, Roshanaei V, Aleman D, Urbach D. A discrete event simulation evaluation of distributed operating room scheduling. IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 6:236-245, 2016

Wanta BT, Glasgow AE, Habermann EB, Kor DJ, Cima RR, Berbari EF, Curry TB, Brown MJ, Hyder JA. Operating room traffic as a modifiable risk factor for surgical site infection. Surgical Infections 17:755-760, 2016

Welder MD, Warhurst KA, Anderson WJL, Salazar FD, Kertes SS, Baxter AC, Stoddard DR. Service block time allocation in the US Army Medical Command. AORN Journal 104:417-425, 2016

Yahia Z, Eltawil AB, Harraz NA. The operating room case-mix problem under uncertainty and nurses capacity constraints. Health Care Management Science 19:383-394, 2016

Yin M, Zhou B, Lu Z. An improved Lagrangian relaxation heuristic for the scheduling problem of operating theatres. Computers & Industrial Engineering 101:490-503, 2016

Zenteno AC, Carnes T, Levi R, Daily BJ, Dunn PF. Systematic OR block allocation at a large academic medical center: comprehensive review on a data-driven surgical scheduling strategy. Annals of Surgery 264:973-981, 2016

Zhu M, Yang Z, Liang X, Lu X, Sahota G, Liu R, Yi L. Managerial decision-making for daily case allocation scheduling and the impact on perioperative quality assurance. Translational Perioperative and Pain Medicine 1:20-30, 2016

Zwijnenberg NC, Hendriks M, Bloemendal E, Damman OC, de Jong JD, Delnoij DM, Rademakers JJ. Patients’ need for tailored comparative health care information: a qualitative study on choosing a hospital. Journal of Medical Internet Research 18:e297, 2016

2015

Aringhieri R, Landa P, Soriano P, Tànfani E, Testi A. A two level metaheuristic for the operating room scheduling and assignment problem. Computers and Operations Research 54:21-34, 2015

Astaraky D, Patrick J. A simulation based approximate dynamic programming approach to multi-class, multi-resource surgical scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 245:309-319, 2015

Baesler F, Gatica J, Correa R. Simulation optimisation for operating room scheduling. International Journal of Simulation Modelling 14:215-226, 2015

Barbagallo S, Corradi L, de Ville de Goyet J, Iannucci M, Porro I, Rosso N, Tanfani E, Testi A. Optimization and planning of operating theatre activities: an original definition of pathways and process modeling. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 15:38, 2015

Bitter J, van Veen-Berkx E, van Amelsvoort P, Gooszen H. Preoperative cross functional teams improve OR performance. Journal of Health Organization and Management 29:343-352, 2015

Boshkoska BM, Damij T, Jelenc F, Damij N. Abdominal surgery process modeling framework for simulation using spreadsheets. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 121:1-13, 2015

Cardoen B, Beliën J, Vanhoucke M. On the design of custom packs: grouping of medical disposable items for surgeries. International Journal of Production Research 53:7343-7359, 2015

Castro PM, Marques I. Operating room scheduling with generalized disjunctive programming. Computers and Operations Research 64:262-273, 2015

Delo C, Leclercq P, Martins D, Pirson M. Costs of disposable material in the operating room do now show high correlation with surgical time: implications for hospital payment. Health Policy 119:1126-1132, 2015

Dios M, Molina-Pariente JM, Fernandez-Viagas V, Andrade-Pineda JL, Framinan JM. A decision support system for operating room scheduling. Computers and Industrial Engineering 88:430-443, 2015

Dobson G, Seidmann A, Tilson V, Froix A. Configuring surgical instrument trays to reduce costs. IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 5:225-237, 2015

Duma D, Aringhieri R. An online optimization approach for the real time management of operating rooms. Operations Research for Health Care 7:40-51, 2015

Farrokhi FR, Gunther M, Williams B, Blackmore CC. Application of lean methodology for improved quality and efficiency in operating room instrument availability. Journal for Healthcare Quality 37:277-286, 2015

Forestier G, Riffaud L, Jannin P. Automatic phase prediction from low-level surgical activities. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10:833-841, 2015

Fugener A. An integrated strategic and tactical master surgery scheduling approach with stochastic resource demand. Journal of Business Logistics 36:374-387, 2015

Girginer N, Köse T, Uçkun N. Efficiency analysis of surgical services by combined use of data envelopment analysis and gray relational analysis. Journal of Medical Systems 39:56, 2015

Gu C, Liu Q, Xiang W. A modified ant colony optimization for the multi-objective operating room scheduling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9140:197-204, 2015

Gul S, Denton BT, Fowler JW. A progressive hedging approach for surgery planning under uncertainty. INFORMS Journal on Computing 27:755-772, 2015

Hosseini N, Taaffe KM. Allocating operating room block time using historical caseload variability. Health Care Management Science 18:419-430, 2015

Islam S, Taylor CJ, Ahmed S, Ormiston IW, Hayter JP. How often does the operating list follow the planned order? An analysis of elective maxillofacial operating lists. The Surgeon 13:312-315, 2015

Jebali A, Diabat A. A stochastic model for operating room planning under capacity constraints. International Journal of Production Research 53:7252-7270, 2015

Ketabi S, Ganji H, Shahin S, Mahnam M, Soltanolkottabi M, Moghadam SAHZ. Surgical services efficiency by data envelopment analysis. Benchmarking: An International Journal 22:978-993, 2015

Kimbrough CW, McMasters KM, Canary J, Jackson L, Farah I, Boswell MV, Kim D, Scoggins CR. Improved operating room efficiency via constraint management: experience of a tertiary-care academic medical center. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 221:154-162, 2015

Liang F, Guo Y, Fung RY. Simulation-based optimization for surgery scheduling in operation theatre management using response surface method. Journal of Medical Systems 39:159, 2015

Lin QL, Liu HC, Wang DJ, Liu L. Integrating systematic layout planning with fuzzy constraint theory to design and optimize the facility layout for operating theatre in hospitals. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 26:87-95, 2015

Malik MM, Khan M, Abdallah S. Aggregate capacity planning for elective surgeries: A bi-objective optimization approach to balance patients waiting with healthcare costs. Operations Research for Health Care 7:3-13, 2015

Marques I, Captivo ME, Vaz Pato M. A bicriteria heuristic for an elective surgery scheduling problem. Health Care Management Science 18:251-266, 2015

Marques I, Captivo ME. Bicriteria elective surgery scheduling using an evolutionary algorithm. Operations Research for Health Care 7:14-26, 2015

Molina-Pariente JM, Fernandez-Viagas V, Framinan JM. Integrated operating room planning and scheduling problem with assistant surgeon dependent surgery durations. Computers and Industrial Engineering 80:8-20, 2015

Molina-Pariente JM, Hans EW, Framinan JM, Gomez-Cia T. New heuristics for planning operating rooms. Computers and Industrial Engineering 90:429-443, 2015

Monteiroa T, Meskens N, Wang T. Surgical scheduling with antagonistic human resource objectives. International Journal of Production Research Volume 53:7434-7449, 2015

Morgan L, New S, Robertson E, Collins G, Rivero-Arias O, Catchpole K, Pickering SP, Hadi M, Griffin D, McCulloch P. Effectiveness of facilitated introduction of a standard operating procedure into routine processes in the operating theatre: a controlled interrupted time series. BMJ Quality & Safety 24:120-127, 2015

Najjarbashi A, Lim G. Using augmented epsilon-constraint method for solving a multi-objective operating theater scheduling. Procedia Manufacturing 3:4448-4455, 2015

Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Otake H, Nakamura T, Oiso G, Sawa T. Productivity change of surgeons in an academic year. Journal of Surgical Education 72:128-134, 2015

Prahl A, Dexter F, Van Swol LM, Braun MT, Epstein RH. E-mail as the appropriate method of communication for the decision-maker when soliciting advice for an intellective decision task. Anesthesia & Analgesia 121:669-677, 2015  

Raft J, Millet F, Meistelman C. Example of cost calculations for an operating room and a post-anaesthesia care unit. Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine 34:211-215, 2015

Razmi J, Barati M, Yousefi MS, Heydari J. A stochastic model for operating room planning under uncertainty and equipment capacity constraints. Journal of Industrial Engineering International 11:269-279, 2015

Saadouli H, Jerbi B, Dammak A, Masmoudi L, Bouaziz A. A stochastic optimization and simulation approach for scheduling operating rooms and recovery beds in an orthopedic surgery department. Computers and Industrial Engineering 80:72-79, 2015

Saremi A, Jula P, ElMekkawy T, Wang GG. Bi-criteria appointment scheduling of patients with heterogeneous service sequences. Expert Systems with Applications 42:4029-4041, 2015

Silva TAO, de Souza MC, Saldanha RR, Burke EK. Surgical scheduling with simultaneous employment of specialised human resources. European Journal of Operational Research 245:719-730, 2015

Starnes JR, Wanderer JP, Ehrenfeld JM. Metadata from data: identifying holidays from anesthesia data. Journal of Medical Systems 39:44, 2015

Tang J, Wang Y. An adjustable robust optimisation method for elective and emergency surgery capacity allocation with demand uncertainty. International Journal of Production Research 53:7317-7328, 2015

Twinanda AP, Alkan EO, Gangi A, de Mathelin M, Padoy N. Data-driven spatio-temporal RGBD feature encoding for action recognition in operating rooms. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10:737-747, 2015

van Veen-Berkx E, Bitter J, Kazemier G, Scheffer GJ, Gooszen HG. Multidisciplinary teamwork improves use of the operating room: a multicenter study. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 220:1070-1076, 2015

Wang D, Liu F, Yin Y, Wang J, Wang Y. Prioritized surgery scheduling in face of surgeon tiredness and fixed off-duty period. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 30:967-981, 2015

Wang S, Ma C, Xiang W. Operating rooms decision optimization integrating surgery planning and nurse rostering. Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015 349:919-2016, 2015

Wang T, Meskens N, Duvivier D. Scheduling operating theatres: Mixed integer programming vs. constraint programming. European Journal of Operational Research 247:401-413, 2015

Wang Y, Tang J, Pan Z, Yan C. Particle swarm optimization-based planning and scheduling for a laminar-flow operating room with downstream resources. Soft Computing 19:2913-2926, 2015

Xiang W, Li C. Surgery scheduling optimization considering real life constraints and comprehensive operation cost of operating room. Technology and Health Care 23:605-617, 2015

Xiang W, Yin J, Lim G. A short-term operating room surgery scheduling problem integrating multiple nurses roster constraints. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 63:91-106, 2015

2014

Agnetis A, Coppi A, Corsini M, Dellino G, Meloni C, Pranzo M. A decomposition approach for the combined master surgical schedule and surgical case assignment problems. Health Care Management Science 17:49-59, 2014

Azari-Rad S, Yontef A, Aleman DM, Urbach DR. A simulation model for perioperative process improvement. Operations Research for Health Care 3:22-30, 2014

Berg BP, Denton BT, Erdogan SA, Rohleder T, Huschka T. Optimal booking and scheduling in outpatient procedure centers. Computers and Operations Research 50:24-37, 2014

Cappanera P, Visintin F, Banditori C. Comparing resource balancing criteria in master surgical scheduling: a combined optimisation-simulation approach. International Journal of Production Economics 158:179-196, 2014

Choi S, Wilhelm WE. On capacity allocation for operating rooms. Computers and Operations Research 44:174-184, 2014

Choi S, Wilhelm WE. An approach to optimize block surgical schedules. European Journal of Operational Research 235:138-148, 2014

Di Martinelly C, Baptiste P, Maknoon MY. An assessment of the integration of nurse timetable changes with operating room planning and scheduling. International Journal of Production Research 52:7239-7250, 2014

Ewen H, Mönch L. A simulation-based framework to schedule surgeries in an eye hospital. IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 4:191-208, 2014

Fugener A, Hans EW, Kolisch R, Kortbeek N, Vanberkel PT. Master surgery scheduling with consideration of multiple downstream units. European Journal of Operational Research 239:227-236, 2014

Guo M, Wu S, Li B, Rong Y. Maximizing the efficiency of use of nurses under uncertain surgery durations: a case study. Computers & Industrial Engineering 78:313-319, 2014

Mercurio P, Shaffer Ellis A, Schoettker PJ, Stone R, Lenk MA, Ryckman FC. Using improvement science methods to increase accuracy of surgical consents. AORN Journal 100:42-53, 2014

M'Hallah R, Al-Roomi AH. The planning and scheduling of operating rooms: a simulation approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering 78:235-248, 2014

Pulido R, Aguirre AM, Ortega-Mier M, García-Sánchez A, Méndez CA. Managing daily surgery schedules in a teaching hospital: a mixed-integer optimization approach. BMC Health Services Research 14:464, 2014

Sandbaek BE, Helgheim BI, Larsen OI, Fasting S. Impact of changed management policies on operating room efficiency. BMC Health Services Research 14:224, 2014

Shewchuk RM, Carlson GL, Klosterman M, Cullen S, Qu H. Frictions as barriers to perioperative alignment: results from a latent class analysis. Quality Management in Health Care 23:188-200, 2014

Sperandio F, Gomes C, Borges J, Brito AC, Almada-Lobo B. An intelligent decision support system for the operating theater: a case study. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 11:265-273, 2014

Stockert EW, Langerman A. Assessing the magnitude and costs of intraoperative inefficiencies attributable to surgical instrument trays. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 219:646-655, 2014

Thorburn H, Khanna S, Boyle J, Good N, Steyn M. Analysis of operating theatre utilisation to drive efficiency and productivity improvements. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 204:163-168, 2014

Tiwari V, Furman WR, Sandberg WS. Predicting case volume from the accumulating elective operating room schedule facilitates staffing improvements. Anesthesiology 121:171-183, 2014

van Essen JT, Bosch JM, Hans EW, van Houdenhoven M, Hurink JL. Reducing the number of required beds by rearranging the OR-schedule. OR Spectrum 36:585-605, 2014

Van Huele C, Vanhoucke M. Analysis of the integration of the physician rostering problem and the surgery scheduling problem. Journal of Medical Systems 38:43, 2014

Wachs JP, Frenkel B, Dori D. Operation room tool handling and miscommunication scenarios: an object-process methodology conceptual model. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 62:153-163, 2014

2013

Azari-Rad S, Yontef AL, Aleman DM, Urbach DR. Reducing elective general surgery cancellations at a Canadian hospital. Canadian Journal of Surgery 56:113-118, 2013

Banditori C, Cappanera P, Visintin F. A combined optimization–simulation approach to the master surgical scheduling problem. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 24:155-187, 2013

Berg BP, Murr M, Chermak D, Woodall J, Pignone M, Sandler RS, Denton BT. Estimating the cost of no-shows and evaluating the effects of mitigation strategies. Medical Decision Making 33:976-985, 2013

Bowers J. Balancing operating theatre and bed capacity in a cardiothoracic centre. Health Care Management Science 16:236-244, 2013

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Rescheduling of previously cancelled surgical cases does not increase variability in operating room workload when cases are scheduled based on maximizing efficiency of use of operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 117:995-1002, 2013  

Ferrari LR. The surgical scorecard: a tool to close the loop on or utilization. Hospital Practice 41:80-88, 2013

Hartmann D, Sunjka B. Private theatre utilisation in South Africa: a case study. The South African Medical Journal 103:285-287, 2013

Lehtonen JM, Torkki P, Peltokorpi A, Moilanen T. Increasing operating room productivity by duration categories and a newsvendor model. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 26:80-92, 2013

Lin QL, Liu L, Liu HC, Wang DJ. Integrating hierarchical balanced scorecard with fuzzy linguistic for evaluating operating room performance in hospitals. Expert Systems with Applications 40:1917-1924, 2013

Lin RC, Sir MY, Pasupathy KS. Multi-objective simulation optimization using data envelopment analysis and genetic algorithm: specific application to determining optimal resource levels in surgical services. Omega 41:881-892, 2013

Meskens N, Duvivier D, Hanset A. Multi-objective operating room scheduling considering desiderata of the surgical team. Decision Support Systems 55:650-659, 2013

Min D, Yih Y. Managing a patient waiting list with time-dependent priority and adverse events. RAIRO - Operations Research 48:53-74, 2013

Shylo OV, Prokopyev OA, Schaefer AJ. Stochastic operating room scheduling for high-volume specialties under block booking. INFORMS Journal on Computing 25:682-692, 2013

Smith CD, Spackman T, Brommer K, Stewart MW, Vizzini M, Frye J, Rupp WC. Re-engineering the operating room using variability methodology to improve health care value. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 216:559-570, 2013

Tanaka M, Lee J, Ikai H, Imanaka Y. Development of efficiency indicators of operating room management for multi-institutional comparisons. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19:335-341, 2013

Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Difficulties and challenges associated with literature searches in operating room management, complete with recommendations. Anesthesia & Analgesia 117:1460-1479, 2013  

Yang M, Fry MJ, Raikhelkar J, Chin C, Anyanwu A, Brand J, Scurlock C. A model to create an efficient and equitable admission policy for patients arriving to the cardiothoracic ICU. Critical Care Medicine 41:414-422, 2013

2012

Baugh R, Li Y. The impact of scheduling policies on surgical clinical access. The Journal of Medical Practice Management 27:371-377, 2012

Choi S, Wilhelm WE. An analysis of sequencing surgeries with durations that follow the lognormal, gamma, or normal distribution. IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 2:156-171, 2012

Damman OC, Spreeuwenberg P, Rademakers J, Hendriks M. Creating compact comparative health care information: what are the key quality attributes to present for cataract and total hip or knee replacement surgery? Medical Decision Making 32:287-300, 2012

Day RW, Garfinkel RS, Thompson SM. Integrated block sharing: a win–win strategy for hospitals and surgeons. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14:567–583, 2012

de Groot IB, Otten W, Smeets HJ, Marang-van de Mheen PJ, CHOICE-2 study group. Is the impact of hospital performance data greater in patients who have compared hospitals? BMC Health Services Research 11:214, 2011

Dexter F, Masursky D, Ledolter J, Wachtel RE, Smallman B. Monitoring changes in individual surgeon's workloads using anesthesia data. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 59:571-577, 2012  

Dexter F, Shi P, Epstein RH. Descriptive study of case scheduling and cancellations within 1 week of the day of surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia 115:1188-1195, 2012  

Ferrari LR, Micheli A, Whiteley C, Chazaro R, Zurakowski D. Criteria for assessing operating room utilization in a free-standing children's hospital. Pediatric Anesthesia 22:696-706, 2012

He B, Dexter F, Macario A, Zenios S. The timing of staffing decisions in hospital operating room: incorporating workload heterogeneity into the newsvendor problem. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14:99-114, 2012

Herring WL, Herrmann JW. The single-day surgery scheduling problem: sequential decision-making and threshold-based heuristics. OR Spectrum 34:429-459, 2012

Jeang A, Chiang AJ. Economic and quality scheduling for effective utilization of operating rooms. Journal of Medical Systems 36:1205-1222, 2012

Majeed MU, Williams DT, Pollock R, Amir F, Liam M, Foong KS, Whitaker CJ. Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy. BMC Health Services Research 12:410, 2012

Mannino C, Nilssen EJ, Nordlander TE. A pattern based, robust approach to cyclic master surgery scheduling. Journal of Scheduling 15:553-563, 2012

Marques I, Captivo ME, Pato MV. An integer programming approach to elective surgery scheduling. OR Spectrum 34:407-427, 2012

Pandit JJ, Abbott T, Pandit M, Kapila A, Abraham R. Is 'starting on time' useful (or useless) as a surrogate measure for 'surgical theatre efficiency'? Anaesthesia 67:823-832, 2012

Rizk C, Arnaout JP. ACO for the surgical cases assignment problem. Journal of Medical Systems 36:1191-1199, 2012

Saremi A, Jula P, ElMekkawy, T, Wang GG. Appointment scheduling of outpatient surgical services in a multistage operating room department. International Journal of Production Economics 141:646–658, 2013

Segev D, Levi R, Dunn PF, Sandberg WS. Modeling the impact of changing patient transportation systems on peri-operative process performance in a large hospital: insights from a computer simulation study. Health Care Management Science 15:155-169, 2012

Stuart K, Kozan E. Reactive scheduling model for the operating theatre. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 24:400-421, 2012

Sulecki L, Dexter F, Zura A, Saager L, Epstein RH. Lack of value of scheduling processes to move cases from a heavily used main campus to other facilities within a healthcare system. Anesthesia & Analgesia 115:395-401, 2012  

van Essen JT, Hurink JL, Hartholt W, van den Akker BJ. Decision support system for the operating room rescheduling problem. Health Care Management Science 15:355-372, 2012

Vansteenkiste N, Lamote C, Vandersmissen J, Luysmans P, Monnens P, De Voldere G, Kips J, Rademakers FE. Reallocation of operating room capacity using the due-time model. Medical Care 50:779-784, 2012

Wu RL, Aufses AH Jr. Characteristics and costs of surgical scheduling errors. American Journal of Surgery 204:468-473, 2012

2011

Batun S, Denton BT, Huschka TR, Schaefer AJ. Operating room pooling and parallel surgery processing under uncertainty. INFORMS Journal on Computing 23:230-237, 2011

Chow VS, Puterman ML, Salehirad N, Huang W, Atkins D. Reducing surgical ward congestion through improved surgical scheduling and uncapacitated simulation. Production and Operations Management 20:418-430, 2011

Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Epstein RH. Event-based knowledge elicitation of operating room management decision-making using scenarios adapted from information systems data. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 11:2, 2011  

Gul S, Denton BT, Fowler JW, Huschka T. Bi-criteria scheduling of surgical services for an outpatient procedure center. Production and Operations Management 20:406-417, 2011

Kumar S. Modeling hospital surgical delivery process design using system simulation: optimizing patient flow and bed capacity as an illustration. Technology and Health Care 19:1-20, 2011

Ledolter J, Dexter F. Analysis of interventions influencing or reducing patient waiting while stratifying by surgical procedure. Anesthesia & Analgesia 112:950-957, 2011  

Lewis HF, Sexton TR, Dolan MA An efficiency-based multicriteria strategic planning model for ambulatory surgery centers. Journal of Medical Systems 35:1029-1037, 2011

Liu Y, Chu CB, Wang KL. A new heuristic algorithm for the operating room scheduling problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering 61:865-871, 2011

Mobasher A, Lim G, Bard JF, Jordan V. Daily scheduling of nurses in operating suites. IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 1:232-246, 2011

Peltokorpi A. How do strategic decisions and operative practices affect operating room productivity? Health Care Management Science 14:370-382, 2011

Riise A, Burke EK. Local search for the surgery admission planning problem. Journal of Heuristics 17:389-414, 2011

Schuld J, Justinger C, Kollmar O, Schilling MK, Richter S. Contribution of final-year medical students to operation room performance - economical and educational implications. Langenbecks Archives of Surgery 396:1239-1244, 2011

Sobolev BG, Sanchez V, Vasilakis C. Systematic review of the use of computer simulation modeling of patient flow in surgical care. Journal of Medical Systems 35:1-16, 2011

van Oostrum JM, Parlevliet T, Wagelmans APM, Kazemier G. A method for clustering surgical cases to allow master surgical scheduling. Information Systems and Operational Research 49:254-260, 2011

Vanberkel PT, Boucherie RJ, Hans EW, Hurink JL, van Lent WA, van Harten WH. Accounting for inpatient wards when developing master surgical schedules. Anesthesia & Analgesia 112:1472-1479, 2011

Vanberkel PT, Boucheriel RJ, Hans EW, Hurink JL, van Lent WAM, van Harten WH. An exact approach for relating recovering surgical patient workload to the master surgical schedule. Journal of the Operational Research Society 62:1851-1860, 2011

2010

Augusto V, Xie X, Perdomo V. Operating theatre scheduling with patient recovery in both operating rooms and recovery beds. Computers & Industrial Engineering 58: 231-238, 2010

Cardoen B, Demeulemeester E, Beliën J. Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review. European Journal of Operational Research 201:921-932, 2010

Cardoen B, Demeulemeester E, Van der Hoeven J. On the use of planning models in the operating theatre: results of a survey in Flanders. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 25:400-414, 2010

Denton BT, Miller AJ, Balasubramanian HJ, Huschka TR. Optimal allocation of surgery blocks to operating rooms under uncertainty. Operations Research 58:1-15, 2010

Dexter F, Masursky D, Wachtel RE, Nussmeier NA. Application of an online reference for reviewing basic statistical principles of operating room management. American Statistical Association: Journal of Statistics Education 18(3), 2010  

Fei H, Meskens N, Chu C. A planning and scheduling problem for an operating theatre using an open scheduling strategy. Computers & Industrial Engineering 58:221-230, 2010

Pandit JJ, Pandit M, Reynard JM. Understanding waiting lists as the matching of surgical capacity to demand: are we wasting enough surgical time? Anaesthesia 65:625-640, 2010

Persson MJ, Persson JA. Analysing management policies for operating room planning using simulation. Health Care Management Science 13:182-191, 2010

Steins K, Persson F, Holmer M. Increasing utilization in a hospital operating department using simulation modeling. Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 86:463-480, 2010

Tanfani E, Testi A. A pre-assignment heuristic algorithm for the Master Surgical Schedule Problem (MSSP). Annals of Operations Research 178:105-119, 2010

van Oostrum JM, Bredenhoff E, Hans EW. Suitability and managerial implications of a Master Surgical Scheduling approach. Annals of Operations Research 178:91-104, 2010

Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Barry B, Applegeet C. Use of state discharge abstract data to identify hospitals performing similar types of operative procedures. Anesthesia & Analgesia 110:1146-1154, 2010  

2009

Adan I, Bekkers J, Dellaert N, Vissers J, Yu X. Patient mix optimisation and stochastic resource requirements: A case study in cardiothoracic surgery planning. Health Care Management Science 12:129-141, 2009

Baumgart A, Denz C, Bender HJ, Schleppers A. Show work context affects operating room processes: using data mining and computer simulation to analyze facility and process design. Quality Management in Health Care 18:305-314, 2009

Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B. A decision support system for cyclic master surgery scheduling with multiple objectives. Journal of Scheduling 12:147-161, 2009

Cardoen B, Demeulemeester E, Beliën E. Sequencing surgical cases in a day-care environment an exact branch-and-price approach. Computers & Operations Research 36:2260-2669, 2009

Cardoen B, Demeulemeester E, Beliën J. Optimizing a multiple objective surgical case sequencing problem. International Journal of Production Economics 119:354-366, 2009

Dexter F, Birchansky L, Bernstein JM, Wachtel RE. Case scheduling preferences of one surgeon's cataract surgery patients. Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:579-582, 2009  

Fei H, Chu C, Meskens N. Solving a tactical operating room planning problem by a column-generation-based heuristic procedure with four criteria. Annals of Operations Research 166:91-108, 2009

Kolker A. Process modeling of ICU patient flow: effect of daily load leveling of elective surgeries on ICU diversion. Journal of Medical Systems 33:27-40, 2009

O'Neill L, Dexter F, Wachtel RE. Should anesthesia groups advocate funding of clinics and scheduling systems to increase operating room workload? Anesthesiology 111:1016-1024, 2009  

Pandit JJ, Dexter F. Lack of sensitivity of staffing for 8-hour sessions to standard deviation in daily actual hours of operating room time used for surgeons with long queues. Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:1910-1915, 2009  

Pandit JJ, Stubbs D, Pandit M. Measuring the quantitative performance of surgical operating lists: theoretical modeling of ‘productive potential’ and ‘efficiency’. Anaesthesia 64:473-486, 2009

Ryckman FC, Yelton PA, Anneken AM, Kiessling PE, Schoettker PJ, Kotagal UR. Redesigning intensive care unit flow using variability management to improve access and safety. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 35:535-543, 2009

Testi A, Tànfani E. Tactical and operational decisions for operating room planning: Efficiency and welfare implications. Health Care Management Science 12:363-373, 2009

van Det MJ, Meijerink WJ, Hoff C, Pierie JP. Interoperative efficiency in minimally invasive surgery suites. Surgical Endoscopy 23:2332-2337, 2009

Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Influence of the operating room schedule on tardiness from scheduled start times. Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:1889-1901, 2009  

Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Reducing tardiness from scheduled start times by making adjustments to the operating room schedule. Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:1902-1909, 2009  

Westbury S, Pandit M, Pandit JJ. Matching surgical operating capacity to demand using estimates of operating times. Journal of Health Organisation and Management 23:554-567, 2009

Zhang B, Murali P, Dessouky MM, Belson D. A mixed integer programming approach for allocating operating room capacity. Journal of the Operational Research Society 60:663-673, 2009

2008

Belien J, Demeulemeester E. A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 189:652-668, 2008

Chaabane S, Meskens N, Guinet A, Laurent M. Comparison of two methods of operating theatre planning: Application in Belgian Hospital. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering 17:171-186, 2008

Dexter F, O'Neill L, Lei X, Ledolter J. Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty. Health Care Management Science 11:307-318, 2008

Faiz O, Tekkis P, McGuire A, Papagrigoriadis S, Rennie J, Leather A. Is theatre utilization a valid performance indicator for NHS operating theatres?. BMC Health Services Research 8:28, 2008

Fei H, Chu C, Meskens N, Artiba A. Solving surgical cases assignment problem by a branch-and-price approach. International Journal of Production Economics 112:96-108, 2008

Hans E, Wullink G, van Houdenhoven M, Kazemier G. Robust surgery loading. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1038-1050, 2008

Lamiri M, Xie XL, Dolgui A, Grimaud F. A stochastic model for operating room planning with elective and emergency demand for surgery. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1026-1037, 2008

Lin F, Lawley M, Spry C, McCarthy K, Coyle-Rogers PG, Yih Y. Using simulation to design a central sterilization department. AORN Journal 88:555-567, 2008

Masursky D, Dexter F, O’Leary CE, Applegeet C, Nussmeier NA. Long-term forecasting of anesthesia workload in operating rooms from changes in a hospital’s local population can be inaccurate. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:1223-1231, 2008  

Moore IC, Strum DP, Vargas LG, Thomson DJ. Observations on surgical demand time series: detection and resolution of holiday variance. Anesthesiology 109:408-416, 2008

Nagy PG, Konewko R, Warnock M, Bernstein W, Seagull J, Xiao Y, George I, Park A. Novel, web-based, information-exploration approach for improving operating room logistics and system processes. Surgical Innovation 15:7-16, 2008

Peltokorpi A, Lehtonen JM, Kujala J, Kouri J. Operating room cost management in cardiac surgery: a simulation study. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 9:60 - 73, 2008

Pham DN, Klinkert A. Surgical case scheduling as a generalized job shop scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research 185:1011-1025, 2008

Reymondon F, Pellet B, Marcon E. Optimization of hospital sterilization costs proposing new grouping choices of medical devices into packages. International Journal of Production Economics 112:326-335, 2008

Sobolev B, Harel D, Vasilakis C, Levy A. Using the statecharts paradigm for simulation of patient flow in surgical care. Health Care Management Science 11:79-86, 2008

van de Klundert J, Muls P, Schadd M. Optimizing sterilization logistics in hospitals. Health Care Manag Sci 11:23-33, 2008

Van Houdenhoven M, van Oostrum JM, Wullink G, Hans E, Hurink JL, Bakker J, Kazemier G. Fewer intensive care unit refusals and a higher capacity utilization by using a cyclic surgical case schedule. Journal of Critical Care 23:222-226, 2008

van Oostrum JM, van Houdenhoven M, Hurink JL, Hans EW, Wullink G, Kazemier G. A master surgical scheduling approach for cyclic scheduling in operating room departments. OR Spectrum 30:355-374, 2008

Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Tactical increases in operating room block time for capacity planning should not be based on utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:215-226, 2008  

2007

Beliën J, Demeulemeester EL. Building cyclic master surgery schedules with leveled resulting bed occupancy. European Journal of Operational Research 176:1185-1204, 2007

Denton B, Viapiano J, Vogl A. Optimization of surgery sequencing and scheduling decisions under uncertainty. Health Care Management Science 10:13-24, 2007

Fairbanks CB. Using six sigma and lean methodologies to improve OR throughput. AORN Journal 86:73-82, 2007

Gupta D. Surgical suites’ operations management. Production and Operations Management 16:689-700, 2007

Hans EW, Nieberg T. Operating room manager game. INFORMS Transactions on Education 8:25-36, 2007

Lehtonen JM, Kujala J, Kouri J, Hippelainen M. Cardiac surgery productivity and throughput improvements. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 20:40-52, 2007

McGowan JE, Truwit JD, Cipriano P, Howell RE, VanBree M, Garson A Jr, Hanks JB. Operating room efficiency and hospital capacity: factors affecting operating room use during maximum hospital census. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 204:865-872, 2007

O'Neill L, Dexter F. Tactical increases in operating room block time based on financial data and market growth estimates from data envelopment analysis. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:355-368, 2007  

Oudhoff JP, Timmermans DR, Rietberg M, Knol DL, Van der Wal G. The acceptability of waiting times for elective general surgery and the appropriateness of prioritising patients. BMC Health Services Research 7(1):32, 2007

Santibáñez P, Begen M, Atkins D. Surgical block scheduling in a system of hospitals: an application to resource and wait list management in a British Columbia health authority. Health Care Management Science 10:269-282, 2007

Schwappach DLB, Strasmann TJ. Does location matter? A study of the public’s preferences for surgical care provision. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13:259-264, 2007

Stahl JE, Goldman JM, Rattner DW, Gazelle GS. Adapting to a new system of surgical technologies and perioperative processes among clinicians. Journal of Surgical Research 139:61-67, 2007

Testi A, Tanfani E, Torre G. A three-phase approach for operating theatre schedules. Health Care Management Science 10:163-172, 2007

Van Houdenhoven M, Hans EW, Klein J, Wullink G, Kazemier G. A norm utilisation for scarce hospital resources: evidence from operating rooms in a Dutch university hospital. Journal of Medical Systems 31:231-236, 2007

Van Houdenhoven M, van Oostrum JM, Hans EW, Wullink G, Kazemier G. Improving operating room efficiency by applying bin-packing and portfolio techniques to surgical case scheduling. Anesthesia & Analgesia 105:707-714, 2007

Wilson CT, Woloshin S, Schwartz LM. Choosing where to have major surgery: who makes the decision? Archives of Surgery 142:242-246, 2007

2006

Basson MD, Butler T. Evaluation of operating room suite efficiency in the Veterans Health Administration system by using data-envelopment analysis. American Journal of Surgery 192:649-656, 2006

Beliën J, Demeulemeester E, Cardoen B. Visualizing the demand for various resources as a function of the master surgery schedule: a case study. Journal of Medical Systems 30:343-350, 2006

Dexter F, Weih LS, Gustafson RK, Stegura LF, Oldenkamp MJ, Wachtel RE. Observational study of operating room times for knee and hip replacement surgery at nine US community hospitals. Health Care Management Science 9:325-339, 2006

Gable WH, Pappas TN, Jacobs DO, Cutler DA, Kuo PC. Productivity measures associated with a patient access initiative. Annals of Surgery 243:604-611, 2006

Hu PF, Xiao Y, Ho D, Mackenzie CF, Hu H, Voigt R, Martz D. Advanced visualization platform for surgical operating room coordination: distributed video board system. Surgical Innovation 13:129-135, 2006

Huang F, Liu SC, Shih SM, Tao YH, Wu JY, Jeng SY, Chang P. A web-based short messaging service system to enhance family-centered surgical patient care. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 122:163-166, 2006

Jebali A, Alouane ABH, Ladet P. Operating rooms scheduling. International Journal of Production Economics 99:52-62, 2006

Macario A. Are your hospital operating rooms "efficient"?: a scoring system with eight performance indicators. Anesthesiology 105:237-240, 2006

Mariano ER, Chu LF, Ramamoorthy C, Macario A. Scheduling elective pediatric procedures that require anesthesia: the perspective of parents. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1426-1431, 2006

Marjamaa RA, Torkki PM, Torkki MI, Kirvela OA. Time accuracy of a radio frequency identification patient tracking system for recording operating room timestamps. Anesthesia & Analgesia 102:1183-1186, 2006

McIntosh C, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1499-1516, 2006  

Siciliani L. A dynamic model of supply of elective surgery in the presence of waiting times and waiting lists. Journal of Health Economics 25:891-907, 2006

Sokal SM, Craft DL, Chang Y, Sandberg WS, Berger DL. Maximizing operating room and recovery room capacity in an era of constrained resources. Archives of Surgery 141:389-395, 2006

2005

Bowers J, Mould G. Ambulatory care and orthopaedic capacity planning. Health Care Management Science 8:41-47, 2005

Calichman MV. Creating an optimal operating room schedule. AORN Journal 81:580-588, 2005

Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wachtel RE. Tactical decision making for selective expansion of operating room resources incorporating financial criteria and uncertainty in subspecialties’ future workloads. Anesthesia & Analgesia 100:1425-1432, 2005  

Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Sohn MW, Ledolter J, Dexter EU, Macario A. Quantifying effect of a hospital’s caseload for a surgical specialty on that of another hospital using market segments including procedure, payer, and locations of patients’ residences. Health Care Management Science 8:121-131, 2005

Mulholland MW, Abrahamse P, Bahl V. Linear programming to optimize performance in a department of surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 200:861-868, 2005

O'Neill L, Dexter F. Methods for understanding super-efficient data envelopment analysis results with an application to hospital inpatient surgery. Health Care Management Science 8:291-298, 2005

Resnick AS, Corrigan D, Mullen JL, Kaiser LR. Surgeon contribution to hospital bottom line: not all are created equal. Annals of Surgery 242:530-537, 2005

Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, Birkmeyer JD. How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey. BMJ 331:821, 2005

Siciliani L. Does more choice reduce waiting times? Health Economics 14:17-23, 2005

Toyabe S, Cao P, Kurashima S, Nakayama Y, Ishii Y, Hosoyama N, Akazawa K. Actual and estimated costs of disposable materials used during surgical procedures. Health Policy 73:52-57, 2005

Vissers JMH, Adan JBF, Bekkers JA. Patient mix optimization in cardiothoracic surgery planning: a case study. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 16:281-304, 2005

Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Lubarsky DA. Financial implications of a hospital's specialization in rare physiologically complex surgical procedures. Anesthesiology 103:161-167, 2005  

2004

De Deyne C, Heylen R. Introduction of an operating room information management system improved overall operating room efficiency. Studies in Health Technology & Informatics 110:61-67, 2004

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Traub RD, Xiao Y. Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times. Anesthesiology 101:1444-1453, 2004  

Dexter F, Epstein RH. Review of operational decision making before the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency. Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés 38:603-630, 2004

Dexter F, Lubarsky DA. Using length of stay data from a hospital to evaluate whether limiting elective surgery at the hospital is an inappropriate decision. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 16:421-425, 2004

Dexter F, Macario A. When to release allocated operating room time to increase operating room efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 98:758-762, 2004  

Dexter F, O'Neill L. Data envelopment analysis to determine by how much hospitals can increase elective inpatient surgical workload for each specialty. Anesthesia & Analgesia 99:1492-1500, 2004  

McManus ML, Long MC, Cooper A, Litvak E. Queuing theory accurately models the need for critical care resources. Anesthesiology 100:1271-1276, 2004

O'Neill L, Dexter F. Market capture of inpatient perioperative services using data envelopment analysis. Health Care Management Science 7:263-273, 2004

Seagull FJ, Xiao Y, Plasters C. Information accuracy and sampling effort: a field study of surgical scheduling coordination. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A. 34:764-771, 2004

2003

Abouleish AE, Hensley SL, Zornow MH, Prough DS. Inclusion of turnover time does not influence identification of surgical services that over- and underutilize allocated block time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:813-818, 2003

Chaabane S, Guinet A, Smolski N, Guiraud M, Luquet B, Marcon E, Viale JP. The industrial management and the management of surgical units. Annales Francaises d Anesthesie et de Reanimation 22:904-908, 2003

Dexter F, Epstein R. Optimizing second shift OR staffing. AORN Journal 77:825-830, 2003

Dexter F, Ledolter H. Managing risk and expected financial return from selective expansion of operating room capacity. Mean-variance analysis of a hospital’s portfolio of surgeons. Anesthesia & Analgesia 97:190-195, 2003  

Dexter F, Smith TC, Tatman DJ, Macario A. Physicians’ perceptions of minimum time that should be saved to move a surgical case from one operating room to another: internet-based survey of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors’ (AACD) members. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 15:206-210, 2003

Dexter F, Traub RD, Macario A, Lubarsky DA. Operating room utilization alone is not an accurate metric for the allocation of operating room block time to individual surgeons with low caseloads. Anesthesiology 98:1243-1249, 2003  

Dexter F, Traub RD, Macario A. How to release allocated operating room time to increase efficiency - Predicting which surgical service will have the most under-utilized operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:507-512, 2003  

Dzoljic M, Zimmerman M, Legemate D, Klazinga NS. Reduced nursing work time and surgical productivity and economics. Anesthesia & Analgesia 97:1127-1132, 2003

Guinet A, Chaabane S. Operating theatre planning. International Journal of Production Economics 85:69-81, 2003

Kuo PC, Schroeder RA, Mahaffey S, Bollinger RR. Optimization of operating room allocation using linear programming techniques. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 197:889-895, 2003

Lebowitz P. Schedule the short procedure first to improve OR efficiency. AORN Journal 78:651-658, 2003

Malalasekera AP, Ariyaratne MH, Fernando R, Perera D, Deen KI. Cost accounting in a surgical unit in a teaching hospital - a pilot study. Ceylon Medical Journal 48:71-74, 2003

Marcon E, Kharraja S, Simonnet G. The operating theatre planning by the follow-up of the risk of no realization. International Journal of Production Economics 85:83-90, 2003

McLeod H, Ham C, Kipping R. Booking patients for hospital admissions: evaluation of a pilot programme for day cases. BMJ 327:1147-1152, 2003

McManus ML, Long MC, Cooper A, Mandell J, Berwick DM, Pagano M, Litvak E. Variability in surgical caseload and access to intensive care services. Anesthesiology 98:1491-1496, 2003

Ogulata SN, Erol R. A hierarchical multiple criteria mathematical programming approach for scheduling general surgery operations in large hospitals. Journal of Medical Systems 27:259-270, 2003

Tyler DC, Pasquariello CA, Chen CH. Determining optimum operating room utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:1114-1121, 2003

Weinbroum AA. Efficiency of the operating room suite. The American Journal of Surgery 185:244-250, 2003

2002

Adan JBF, Vissers JMH. Patient mix optimisation in hospital admission planning: a case study. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 22:445-461, 2002

Blake JT, Carter MW. A goal programming approach to strategic resource allocation in acute care hospitals. European Journal of Operational Research 140:541-561, 2002

Blake JT, Dexter F, Donald J. Operating room managers’ use of integer programming for assigning allocated block time to surgical groups: a case study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:143-148, 2002  

Coley KC, Williams BA, DaPos SV, Chen C, Smith RB. Retrospective evaluation of unanticipated admissions and readmissions after same day surgery and associated costs. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 14:349-353, 2002

Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA. Calculating a potential increase in hospital margin for elective surgery by changing operating room time allocations or increasing nursing staffing to permit completion of more cases: a case study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:138-142, 2002  

Dexter F, Blake JT, Penning DH, Sloan B, Chung P, Lubarsky DA. Use of linear programming to estimate impact of changes in a hospital’s operating room time allocation on perioperative variable costs. Anesthesiology 96:718-724, 2002  

Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Blake JT. Sampling error can significantly affect measured hospital financial performance of surgeons and resulting operating room time allocations. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:184-188, 2002  

Dexter F, Macario A. Changing allocations of operating room time from a system based on historical utilization to one where the aim is to schedule as many surgical cases as possible. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:1272-1279, 2002  

Dexter F, Traub RD. How to schedule elective surgical cases into specific operating rooms to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:933-942, 2002  

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Statistical power analysis to estimate how many months of data are required to identify operating room staffing solutions to reduce labor costs and increase productivity. Anesthesia & Analgesia 94:640-643, 2002  

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Uncertainty in knowing the operating rooms in which cases were performed has little effect on operating room allocations or efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:1726-1730, 2002  

Everett JE. A decision support simulation model for the management of elective surgery waiting system. Health Care Management Science 5:89-95, 2002

Gallivan S, Utley M, Treasure T, Valencia O. Booked inpatient admission and hospital capacity: mathematical modelling study. British Medical Journal 324:280-282, 2002

Harper PR. A framework for operational modeling of hospital resources. Health Care Management Science 5:167-173, 2002

Junger A, Benson M, Quinzio L, Michel A, Sciuk G, Brammen D, Marquardt K, Hempelmann G. An Anesthesia Information Management System as a tool for controlling resource management of operating rooms. Methods of Information in Medicine 41:81-85, 2002

Lovejoy WS, Li Y. Hospital operating room capacity expansion. Management Science 48:1369-1387, 2002

Sieber TJ, Leibundgut DL. Operating room management and strategies in Switzerland: results of a survey. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 19:415-423, 2002

2001

Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marsh HM. Statistical analysis of weekday operating room anesthesia group staffing at nine independently managed surgical suites. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:1493-1498, 2001  

Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA. Impact on revenue of increasing patient volume at surgical suites with relatively high operating room utilization. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:1215-1221, 2001  

Dexter F, Traub RD, Lebowitz P. Scheduling a delay between different surgeons’ cases in the same operating room on the same day using upper prediction bounds for case durations. Anesthesia & Analgesia 92:943-946, 2001  

Macario A, Dexter F, Traub RD. Hospital profitability per hour of operating room time can vary among surgeons. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:669-675, 2001  

Rouse A, Wilson R, Stevens A. If the NHS introduced a ’50 procedures a year’ policy, what proportion of consultant forms would be affected? Journal of Public Health Medicine 23:65-68, 2001

Shelver SR, Winston L. Improving surgical on-time starts through common goals. AORN Journal 74(4):506-513, 2001

2000

Bardram JE. Temporal coordination - on time and coordination of collaborative activities at a surgical department. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 9:157-187, 2000

Dexter F, Macario A, O’Neill L. Scheduling surgical cases into overflow block time - computer simulation of the effects of scheduling strategies on operating room labor costs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 90:980-986, 2000  

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD. Enterprise-wide patient scheduling information systems to coordinate surgical clinic and operating room scheduling can impair operating room efficiency. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:617-626, 2000  

Dexter F, Traub RD. Sequencing cases in operating rooms - predicting whether one surgical case will last longer than another. Anesthesia & Analgesia 90:975-979, 2000  

Dexter F, Traub RD. Lack of systematic month-to-month variation over one year periods in ambulatory surgery caseload - application to anesthesia staffing. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:1426-1430, 2000  

Epstein RH, Dexter F. Economic analysis of linking operating room scheduling and hospital material management information systems for just in time inventory control. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:337-343, 2000  

Kim SC, Horowitz I, Young KK, Buckley TA. Flexible bed allocation and performance in the intensive care unit. Journal of Operations Management 18:427-443, 2000

Macario A, Dexter F. Effect of compensation and patient scheduling on operating room labor costs. AORN Journal 71:860-869, 2000

Ozkarahan I. Allocation of surgeries to operating rooms by goal programming. Journal of Medical Systems 24:339-378, 2000

Taheri PA, Butz DA, Greenfield LJ. Length of stay has minimal impact on the cost of hospital admission. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 191:123-130, 2000

1999

Dexter F, Macario A, Lubarsky DA, Burns DD. Statistical method to evaluate management strategies to decrease variability in operating room utilization - Application of linear statistical modeling and Monte-Carlo simulation to operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:262-274, 1999  

Dexter F, Macario A, Qian F, Traub RD. Forecasting surgical groups’ total hours of elective cases for allocation of block time - Application of time series analysis to operating room management. Anesthesiology 91:1501-1508, 1999  

Dexter F, Macario A, Traub RD, Hopwood M, Lubarsky DA. An operating room scheduling strategy to maximize the use of operating room block time - Computer simulation of patient scheduling and survey of patients’ preferences for surgical waiting time. Anesthesia & Analgesia 89:7-20, 1999  

Lapierre SD, Batson C, McCaskey S. Improving on-time performance in health care organizations: a case study. Health Care Management Science 2:27-34, 1999

Spangler WE, Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH. Computer-based operational and decision support for surgical services. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 2:15-36, 1999

Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH. Surgical subspecialty block utilization and capacity planning. A minimal cost analysis model. Anesthesiology 90:1176-1185, 1999

1998

Dexter F. Regional anesthesia does not significantly change surgical time versus general anesthesia - a meta-analysis of randomized studies. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management 23:439-443, 1998

Vitez TS, Macario A. Setting performance standards for an anesthesia department. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 10:166-175, 1998

1997

Rosenblatt WH, Chavez A, Tenney D, Silverman DG. Assessment of the economic impact of an overage reduction program in the operating room. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9:478-481, 1997

Rotondi AJ, Brindis C, Cantees KK, DeRiso BM, Ilkin HM, Palmer JS, Gunnerson HB, Watkins WD. Benchmarking the perioperative process. I. Patient routing systems: a method for continual improvement of patient flow and resource utilization. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9:159-167, 1997

Sier D, Tobin P, McGurk C. Scheduling surgical procedures. Journal of the Operational Research Society 48:884-891, 1997

Strum DP, Vargas LG, May JH, Bashein G. Surgical suite utilization and capacity planning: a minimal cost analysis model. Journal of Medical Systems 21:309-322, 1997

1996

Donham RT, Mazzei WJ, Jones RL. Procedural times glossary. American Journal of Anesthesiology 23:5 Suppl. 4-12, 1996

Gerchak Y, Gupta D, Henig M. Reservation planning for elective surgery under uncertain demand for emergency surgery. Management Science 42:321-334, 1996

Truong A, Tessler MJ, Kleiman SJ, Bensimon M. Late operating room starts: experience with an education trial. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 43:1233-1236, 1996

1995

Gaynor M, Anderson GF. Uncertain demand, the structure of hospital costs, and the cost of empty hospital beds. Journal of Health Economics 14:291-317, 1995

Ozkarahan I. Allocation of surgical procedures to operating rooms. Journal of Medical Systems. 19:333-352, 1995

1992

Kennedy, MH. Bin-packing, knapsack, and chance-constrained approaches to operating room scheduling [dissertation]. Troy, New York: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, 1992

1988

Warnock-Matheron AG, Hannah KJ. Comparative analysis of computer-based operating room information systems: an evaluation research study. Computers in Nursing. 6:147-156, 1988

1972

Fairman WL. Scheduling/ resource level decisions in the hospital operating room environment. University of Pittsburgh 1972