Duty rostering for physicians at a department of orthopedics and trauma surgery

Publication date: Available online 5 April 2018Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Clemens ThielenAbstractThis paper presents a case study of duty rostering for physicians at a department of orthopedics and trauma surgery. We provide a detailed description of the rostering problem faced and present an integer programming model that has been used in practice for creating duty rosters at the department for more than a year. Using real world data, we compare the model output to a manually generated roster as used previously by the department and analyze the quality of the rosters generated by the model over a longer time span. Moreover, we demonstrate how unforeseen events such as absences of scheduled physicians are handled.
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research