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Decision support for rehabilitation hospital scheduling

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  • Schimmelpfeng, Katja
  • Helber, Stefan
  • Kasper, Steffen

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We present a detailed analysis of the patient and resource scheduling problem in rehabilitation hospitals. In practice, the predominantly therapeutical treatments and activities which are prescribed for the patients are typically scheduled manually. This leads to rigid and inefficient schedules which can have negative effects on the quality of care and the patients' satisfaction. We outline the conceptual framework of a decision support system for the scheduling process that is based on formal optimization models. To this end, we first develop a large-scale monolithic optimization model. Then we derive a numerically tractable hierarchical model system in order to deal with problem instances of realistic sizes. We report numerical results with respect to solution times, model sizes and solution quality.

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  • Schimmelpfeng, Katja & Helber, Stefan & Kasper, Steffen, 2010. "Decision support for rehabilitation hospital scheduling," Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) dp-458, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät.
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    1. Gartner, Daniel & Kolisch, Rainer, 2014. "Scheduling the hospital-wide flow of elective patients," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 233(3), pages 689-699.
    2. Marynissen, Joren & Demeulemeester, Erik, 2019. "Literature review on multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 272(2), pages 407-419.
    3. Lizhong Zhao & Chen-Fu Chien & Mitsuo Gen, 2018. "A bi-objective genetic algorithm for intelligent rehabilitation scheduling considering therapy precedence constraints," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 29(5), pages 973-988, June.

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    Keywords

    rehabilitation hospital scheduling; decision support; decomposition; mathematical programming;
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    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis

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