Nurse scheduling is a complex combinatorial optimization problem. With increasing healthcare costs, and a shortage of trained staff it is becoming increasingly important for hospital management to make good operational decisions. A major element of hospital expenditure is staff cost. In order to help Kajang Hospital to make decisions about staffing and work scheduling, a simulation model was cr...

Abstract This article is concerned with the cost and time-effective scheduling of financial auditors integer linear programming. The schedule optimization considers 13 different constraints, staff scarcity, frequent alterations input data need to minimize changes in generated schedule, scaling issues. delivered implementation reduced time first from 3 man-days 1 h update man-day 4 min.

Background The Contraceptive CHOICE Project developed a patient-centered model for contraceptive provision including: (1) structured, evidence-based counseling; (2) staff and health care provider education; and (3) removal of barriers such as cost and multiple appointments to initiate contraception. In preparation for conducting a research study of the CHOICE model in three community health set...

BACKGROUND A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) demonstration was undertaken at 1 healthcare system, with the goals of improving patient experience, lessening staff burnout, improving quality, and reducing downstream costs. Five design principles guided development of the PCMH changes to staffing, scheduling, point-of-care, outreach, and management. OBJECTIVE To report differences in patien...

The quality of nursing care services can achieve optimal results if the workload and existing nurse resources have a balanced proportion. Currently, is still unsatisfactory influenced by various problems including planning scheduling staff at each service shift. purpose this study was to identify perception head’s room team leader about shift in Tasikmalaya City Hospital. showed that were mostl...

We introduce the subject of bus and train driver scheduling, and outline some early attempts at solutions based on heuristics, explaining their limitations. We then examine one successful blend of heuristics and integer linear programming leading to the TRACS II system which is in regular use in a wide range of transport organisations. Again we discuss the limitations of this system. In order t...

This thesis investigates the application of Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) approach in the field of Software Project Management (SPM). With SBSE approaches, a pool of candidate solutions to an SPM problem is automatically generated and gradually evolved to be increasingly more desirable. The thesis is motivated by the observation from industrial practice that it is much more helpful t...

Employees who are motivated perform their jobs better. IS managers can enhance and leverage the human resource capability of their departments by understanding the role motivation plays in creating a responsive and productive IS staff. This article describes an effective method for managers to identify the motivational issues for individual employees. In addition, it proposes strategies for adm...

The role of the dental team in caries management by risk assessment is critical to successful patient outcomes. Positive patient interactions and communication, proper appointment scheduling, diagnostics and data gathering, as well as implementation of noninvasive or minimally invasive procedures can be the responsibility of all members of the dental team. This article will evaluate the role of...