Overbooking Surgical Blocks
A novel method for overbooking surgeon blocks was developed and successfully used in practice for years to improve operating room (OR) access while ensuring fairness through Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming. Implemented as a web tool, this approach optimizes OR utilization, contributing an additional 2–3.5% at two hospital campuses.
Authors
- Martin R. Weiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9577-7984)
- Christopher T. B. Strömblad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-1009)
- Upasana Raval
- Shok-Jean Yee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-9454)
- Kristy Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1017-2427)
- Thomas C. Barber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2237-1190)
Institutions
- American Airlines (United States) (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center (US)
- Zealand University Hospital Køge (DK)
- University of San Francisco (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2023.0063
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00