Nurse Scheduling Using Mathematical Programming
1976; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences; Volume: 24; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1287/opre.24.5.857
ISSN1526-5463
AutoresHolmes E. Miller, William P. Pierskalla, Gustave J. Rath,
Tópico(s)Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
ResumoThis paper formulates the nurse-scheduling problem as one of selecting a configuration of nurse schedules that minimize an objective function that balances the trade-off between staffing coverage and schedule preferences of individual nurses, subject to certain feasibility constraints on the nurse schedules. The problem is solved by a cyclic coordinate descent algorithm. We present results pertaining to a six-month application to a particular hospital unit and draw comparisons between the algorithm and hospital-generated schedules.
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