Paper Info
Title
Emergency departments II: a simulation-ilp based tool for scheduling ER staff
Abstract
Healthcare facilities, especially hospitals, are under financial pressure to control cost. One element that affects cost significantly is staff. We have developed a tool that integrates a simulation model and an integer linear program (ILP). The simulation model establishes the staffing requirements for each period, and the ILP produces an optimal calendar schedule for the staff, i. e. how many staff members to start at each shift. The two models were fully integrated, under a Visual Basic interface that allowed a non expert user of the heuristic to interact with it on a repetitive planning basis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.5555/1030818.1031086
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
healthcare facility,integer linear program,emergency departments ii,financial pressure,simulation model,repetitive planning basis,non expert user,staff member,staffing requirement,optimal calendar schedule,visual basic interface,er staff
Visual Basic,Heuristic,Staffing,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Simulation,Linear programming
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-8132-7
20
1.88
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martha A. Centeno111116.76
Ronald Giachetti221424.01
Richard Linn31107.93
Abdullah M. Ismail4201.88