TY - JOUR AU - Ribeiro, José Francisco Ferreira AU - Leoneti, Alexandre Bevilacqua AU - Costa, André Lucirton PY - 2018/09/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A two-phase method for operating room scheduling JF - Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management JA - BJO&PM VL - 15 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.14488/BJOPM.2018.v15.n4.a1 UR - https://bjopm.org.br/bjopm/article/view/421 SP - 471-480 AB - <p>In this paper, a two-phase method and a computational program to perform surgery scheduling for operating rooms in a hospital are presented. In Phase I, surgeries are assigned to operating rooms using a generalized assignment model. In Phase II, a sequence for performing surgeries in each room is established. In the proposed method, Phase I maximizes doctors’ room preferences, taking into account the time available in each room, and Phase II establishes a schedule of surgeries in the rooms, according to doctors’ preferences for periods of day. The program was written in Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel and was tested as a surgery scheduling tool at St. Lydia Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.</p> ER -