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The impact of incorporating nurse-specific characteristics in a cyclical scheduling approach

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  • B Maenhout

    (Ghent University)

  • M Vanhoucke

    (Ghent University
    Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School)

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Nursing staff in various hospitals in Belgium are principally cyclically scheduled. The employed cyclic schedules embody, however, only a weak reflection of the ultimate nurse rosters constructed for a specific month. In this paper, we investigate the benefits of integrating nurse-specific characteristics in the cyclic scheduling approach. Moreover, we analyse to what extent these characteristics should be incorporated and compare this approach with a general and more robust cyclical scheduling approach and the flexible acyclical rostering of nursing personnel.

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  • B Maenhout & M Vanhoucke, 2009. "The impact of incorporating nurse-specific characteristics in a cyclical scheduling approach," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 60(12), pages 1683-1698, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:60:y:2009:i:12:d:10.1057_jors.2008.131
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