title: Mount Sinai Hospital uses integer programming to allocate operating room time
abstract: An integer-programming model and a post-solution heuristic allocates operating room time to the five surgical divisions at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital has used this approach for several years and credits it with both administrative savings and the ability to produce quickly an equitable master surgical schedule
keyphrases: Mount Sinai Hospital integer programming post-solution heuristic Toronto operating room time allocation Ontario Canada