Risk assessment is a standard tool in health care systems which is used to improve patient safety. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a powerful risk assessment tool for safety and reliability widely applied by industries such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, chemical, mechanical, medical technologies, and electronics. FMEA is popular technique, but it has some substantial deficienci...

The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries ORs across collaborating hospitals that share their waiting lists and ORs. We propose a stochastic extension this where surgery durations are considered be uncertain. In order obtain solutions for the challenging model, we use sample average approximation develop two enhanced decomposition frameworks ...

Background: Some operating room personnel are occupationally exposed to genotoxic agents such as anesthetic gases and ionizing radiation. Adaptive response, as a defense mechanism, will occur when cells become exposed to a low dose of factors harming DNA (priming dose), which in the subsequent exposure to higher dose of those factors (challenging dose), show more resistance and sensibility.. <b...