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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Operations Research
  • Public Health Policy

Background:

  • Portuguese National Health Plan emphasizes resource rationalization and reduced surgical waiting lists.
  • Elective surgery scheduling is a complex problem in public hospitals, impacting efficiency and patient access.
  • Current scheduling practices may not fully optimize surgical suite utilization or minimize patient wait times.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the elective surgery scheduling problem in a Lisbon public hospital.
  • To develop a bicriteria optimization model to maximize surgical suite occupation and the number of scheduled surgeries.
  • To present an efficient heuristic procedure for finding optimal solutions to the surgery scheduling problem.

Main Methods:

  • Formulation of a bicriteria surgery scheduling problem.
  • Application of weighted Chebyshev distance minimization to find efficient solutions.
  • Development of a constructive and improvement heuristic procedure for scheduling optimization.
  • Computational experiments using empirical data from a Lisbon public hospital.

Main Results:

  • The bicriteria approach successfully generated surgical plans with high performance levels.
  • The heuristic procedure effectively addressed the dual objectives of maximizing suite occupation and scheduled surgeries.
  • Empirical results demonstrate the practical applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Conclusions:

  • The presented bicriteria optimization method can significantly improve elective surgery scheduling in public hospitals.
  • The approach offers a valuable tool for decision-makers, enabling interactive planning and enhanced efficiency.
  • The methodology is adaptable to other healthcare settings facing similar surgical scheduling challenges.