Analyzing the effects of the new labor law on outpatient nurse scheduling with law-fitting modeling and case studies
作者：
Highlights：
• Studies whether and how the new labor law affects outpatient nurse scheduling.
• Formulates a law-fitting model and makes before/after comparisons based on the case.
• Determines the nursing staff required using a novel reverse analytical approach.
• Leverages the trade-off options between reducing full-time or part-time nurses.
• Verifies model’s effectiveness using a larger real case and a large virtual case.
摘要
•Studies whether and how the new labor law affects outpatient nurse scheduling.•Formulates a law-fitting model and makes before/after comparisons based on the case.•Determines the nursing staff required using a novel reverse analytical approach.•Leverages the trade-off options between reducing full-time or part-time nurses.•Verifies model’s effectiveness using a larger real case and a large virtual case.
论文关键词：Healthcare operations,Decision analysis,Labor law,Nurse scheduling,Outpatient,Goal programming
论文评审过程：Received 24 July 2020, Revised 28 March 2021, Accepted 21 April 2021, Available online 24 April 2021, Version of Record 15 May 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115103
