Arbeitspapier

Decision support for rehabilitation hospital scheduling

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 458

Classification
Wirtschaft
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Subject
Rehabilitationseinrichtung
Krankenhausmanagement
Scheduling-Verfahren
Management-Informationssystem
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schimmelpfeng, Katja
Helber, Stefan
Kasper, Steffen
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
(where)
Hannover
(when)
2010

Handle
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Schimmelpfeng, Katja
  • Helber, Stefan
  • Kasper, Steffen
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Time of origin

  • 2010

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