He, Biyu; Dexter, Franklin; Macario, Alex; Zenios, Stefanos - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14 (2012) 1, pp. 99-114
We study the problem of setting nurse staffing levels in hospital operating rooms when there is uncertainty about daily workload. The workload is the number of operating room hours used by a medical specialty on a given day to perform surgical procedures. Variable costs consist of wages at a...