Managing Portfolio of Elective Surgical Procedures: A Multidimensional Inverse Newsvendor Problem
研究手术室和康复床位两种资源交互对每日择期手术最优数量的影响，评估仅考虑手术室容量的前端方法在不同情境下的表现，并揭示手术资源利用变异性对最优组合的作用。
Hospital care is one of the fundamental components in any healthcare delivery system. Within hospital care, surgical procedures account for the largest share of the revenue generated. Traditionally, the operating room (OR) capacity is viewed as a major constraint limiting a hospital's ability to increase the number of surgical procedures and the accompanying revenues. However, each procedure consumes not only the OR capacity but also, the hospital bed capacity. In “Managing Portfolio of Elective Surgical Procedures: A Multidimensional Inverse Newsvendor Problem,” Hessam Bavafa, Charles M. Leys, Lerzan Örmeci, and Sergei Savin investigate the effects of the interaction between the two resources (i.e., OR and recovery beds) on the optimal number of elective surgical procedures to be performed daily. They evaluate the performance of the “front-end” approach, which considers only the OR capacity, in different settings. Moreover, they show how the variability of the resource utilization by surgical procedures affects the optimal elective portfolio.