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This paper addresses the problem of scheduling inpatient admission in a hospital with highly uncertain length of stay and with a significant part of patients from emergency department. The main difficulty is to keep enough beds for unknown emergency patients and unknown future inpatients, also called elective patients, when planning admission of elective patients. For this purpose, we model inpatient...
Waiting time in emergency department before admission is one of the most important cause of overcrowding of the department. Many difficulties are faced by the decision maker in charge of assigning a bed both to emergency patients and elective inpatients. He has to take into account many constraints and has to find a solution optimizing multiple criteria. He has to deal with the need to minimize the...
A fast realization of drugs is an important part in the quality of service of a hospital. In this paper we propose a scheduling method for the preparation of chemotherapy doses in order to reduce the patient waiting time. Two approaches have been defined: an off-line approach and a real time approach. The off-line approach is using a linear programming model for minimizing the maximum tardiness of...
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