2020

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

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

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

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, 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  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

Guédon ACP, Rakers TJ, Wauben LSGL, Meeuwsen FC, Hoeijmans V, van der Elst M, Dankelman J, van den Dobbelsteen JJ. Just-in-time delivery of sterilised surgical instruments. BMJ Innovations 2:58-64, 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

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

Costa Ada S Jr, Leão LE, Novais MA, Zucchi P. An assessment of the quality indicators of operative and non-operative times in a public university hospital. Einstein (Sao Paulo) 13:594-599, 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

Augusto V, Xie X, Perdomo V. Operating theatre scheduling using Lagrangian relaxation. European Journal of Industrial Engineering 2:172-189, 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 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 9:478-81, 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