Scheduling Emergency Physicians Based on a Multiobjective Programming Approach: A Case Study of West China Hospital of Sichuan University
Table 1
Notation and description of parameters.
Notation
Description
Parameters
Set of doctor groups, indexed by
Set of days of the monthly planning period, indexed by
Set of doctors, indexed by
Index of the shift type: for the day shift (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.), for the strengthen shift (including two time intervals, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.), and for the night shift (8 p.m. on the first day to 8 a.m. on the second day)
Index of the seniority levels of the doctors: for the high and average seniority levels, respectively
Number of doctors belonging to each seniority level:
Difference in amounts of night shifts for the doctors at the same level within the planning period
Total number of shifts that a doctor group should be assigned
Set of doctor groups who need rest during the planning period
Set of rest days of a doctor group ,
Upper limit of the number of doctor groups required for every shift
Lower limit of the number of doctor groups required for every shift
Upper limit of the number of doctor groups required for all shifts per day
Lower limit of the number of doctor groups required for all shifts per day
