Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Business and Management.
Abstract
This paper presents a case study of an Emergency Department of a public hospital in Dublin, and uses an integrated approach to determine optimal staffing levels to meet the challenges of its dynamic patient demand levels. A comprehensive stochastic model is developed to incorporate patients care pathways and the resources required along their treatment journeys. Analytical Hierarchical Process is utilised to enable decision makers to set their preferences for the facility’s strategic objectives. Evolutionary algorithms are applied to optimise staff schedules. The resulted optimized schedules maintains continuity of care delivery for patients while ensuring a balanced equilibrium among available staff.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/D7NJ6W
Recommended Citation
Arisha, A. and Abo-Hamad, W. Towards Operations Excellence: Optimising Staff Scheduling For New Emergency Department. Proceedings of the 20th International Annual EurOMA Conference - "Operations Management at the Heart of the Recovery", 9-12 June 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
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Publication Details
Proceedings of the 20th International Annual EurOMA Conference - "Operations Management at the Heart of the Recovery", 9-12 June 2013, Dublin, Ireland.