Applications of Hospital Bed Optimization

• Capacity Planning for Small Hospitals and Departments Illustrated Using Maternity and Paediatrics Departments: Roles for Weighted Population Density, Seasonality and Size, Myths Around Length of Stay and Factors Influencing Costs and Funding

  2026 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

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• Multi-agent Decision Support Framework for Bed Allocation and Patient Flow Optimization in Hospitals

  2026 Lecture notes in computer science conference-paper Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

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• Operational Analysis of the Pediatric Patient Flow in a Hospital

  2023 Research Square preprint Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

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• Operational Analysis of the Pediatric Patient Flow in a Hospital

  2023 Research Square preprint Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

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• Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review

  2009 European Journal of Operational Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

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• Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems

  1984 article Business, Management and Accounting Management and Optimization Techniques

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• Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems.

  1990 Production Planning & Control article Business, Management and Accounting Management and Optimization Techniques

  436

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• Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

  2012 Health Systems article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  435

  citations
• A comprehensive simulation for wait time reduction and capacity planning applied in general surgery

  2007 Health Care Management Science article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  194

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• Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model

  2009 Annals of Operations Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  165

  citations
• A survey of health care models that encompass multiple departments

  2009 University of Twente Research Information article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  163

  citations
• Managing the overflow of intensive care patients

  2006 European Journal of Operational Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  150

  citations
• Master surgery scheduling with consideration of multiple downstream units

  2014 European Journal of Operational Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  143

  citations
• Combining simulation and goal programming for healthcare planning in a medical assessment unit

  2007 European Journal of Operational Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  99

  citations
• On Fair Routing from Emergency Departments to Hospital Wards: QED Queues with Heterogeneous Servers

  2012 Management Science article Business, Management and Accounting Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis

  97

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• OR Practice—Efficient Short-Term Allocation and Reallocation of Patients to Floors of a Hospital During Demand Surges

  2009 Operations Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  92

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• Decision support for hospital bed management using adaptable individual length of stay estimations and shared resources

  2013 BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  90

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• Scheduling admissions and reducing variability in bed demand

  2011 Health Care Management Science article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  85

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• Scheduling the hospital-wide flow of elective patients

  2013 European Journal of Operational Research article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  83

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• An integrated queuing and multi-objective bed allocation model with application to a hospital in China

  2008 Journal of the Operational Research Society article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  81

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• An integer linear model for hospital bed planning

  2012 International Journal of Production Economics article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  72

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• Tactical resource allocation and elective patient admission planning in care processes

  2013 Health Care Management Science article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  71

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• Elective Patient Admission and Scheduling under Multiple Resource Constraints

  2015 Production and Operations Management article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization

  71

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• Nurse–patient assignment models considering patient acuity metrics and nurses’ perceived workload

  2015 Journal of Biomedical Informatics article Health Professions Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization Open access

  70

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