| 书目名称 | Flexible Shift Planning in the Service Industry |
| 副标题 | The Case of Physicia |
| 编辑 | Jens O. Brunner |
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| 概述 | Includes supplementary material: |
| 丛书名称 | Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | The introductory chapter consists of four sections. In Sect. 1. 1 we reveal the c- rent situation in hospitals that is faced by the management. We address the general issue of personnel scheduling in the service industry in Sect. 1. 2. Then we motivate our research by considering physicians as the scheduling object. In particular, we show the complex nature of physician scheduling in a hospital environment. The focus of the research is presented in Sect. 1. 3. Finally, we conclude the chapter by illustrating the outline of the thesis. 1. 1 General Economic Situation in Hospitals The mounting pressure in the health care industry to reduce costs is forcing hos- tals and related facilities to take a closer look at their staf?ng policies (see [111]). A primary dif?culty in reducing personnel costs, the major component of the budget, is the variability in demand and the need to assign staff to ?xed shifts. Furthermore, government run facilities, especially those in the European Union, are seeing their budgets cut in terms of real dollars despite an aging and more acutely ill patient population (e. g. , see [96]). It has been reported that up to a third of the hospitals in Germanyplan a |
| 出版日期 | Book 2010 |
| 关键词 | Branch-and-Price; Column Generation; Hospital; Implicit Shift Scheduling; Integer Programming; Physician |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10517-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-10516-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-10517-3Series ISSN 0075-8442 Series E-ISSN 2196-9957 |
| issn_series | 0075-8442 |
| copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 |
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