<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Supporting services play an important role in health care institutions such as hospitals. This paper presents an application of operations research model for optimal allocation of workers among supporting services in a public hospital. The services include logistics, inventory management, financial management, operations management, medical analysis, etc. The optimality criterion of the problem is to minimize operations costs of supporting services subject to some specific constraints. The constraints represent specific conditions for resource allocation in a hospital. The overall problem is formulated as an integer program in the literature known as the assignment problem, where the decision variables represent the assignment of people to various jobs. The results of some computational experiments modeled on a real data from a selected Polish hospital are reported.</p></abstract>

Supporting services play an important role in health care institutions such as hospitals. This paper presents an application of operations research model for optimal allocation of workers among supporting services in a public hospital. The services include logistics, inventory management, financial management, operations management, medical analysis, etc. The optimality criterion of the problem is to minimize operations costs of supporting services subject to some specific constraints. The constraints represent specific conditions for resource allocation in a hospital. The overall problem is formulated as an integer program in the literature known as the assignment problem, where the decision variables represent the assignment of people to various jobs. The results of some computational experiments modeled on a real data from a selected Polish hospital are reported.

Optimal assignment of workers to supporting services in a hospital

Department of Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Department of Management and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering

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Supporting services play an important role in health care institutions such as hospitals. This paper presents an application of operations research model for...

Optimal assignment of workers to supporting services in a hospital

Published Online: Apr 14, 2009

Page range: 197 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-008-0016-y

Keywords
assignment problem, integer programming, services operations management, health care planning

This content is open access.

Optimal assignment of workers to supporting services in a hospital

Published Online: Apr 14, 2009

Page range: 197 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-008-0016-y

Keywordsassignment problem, integer programming, services operations management, health care planning

This content is open access.

Keywords
assignment problem, integer programming, services operations management, health care planning