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A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling
2008
European Journal of Operational Research
A common problem at hospitals is the extreme variation in daily (even hourly) workload pressure for nurses. The operating room is considered to be the main engine and hence the main generator of variance in the hospital. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First of all, we present a concrete model that integrates both the nurse and the operating room scheduling process. Second, we show how the column generation technique approach, one of the most employed exact methods for solving nurse
doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.060
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