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Staff Scheduling During a Pandemic

2021· dissertation· en· W7006156582 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2021
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicScheduling and Timetabling Solutions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScheduling (production processes)PandemicJob shop schedulingNurse scheduling problemCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Dynamic priority schedulingSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Health care2019-20 coronavirus outbreakProcess (computing)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The year 2019 revealed that some of the policies which have shaped the core structure of many organizations in different industries for a long time, could result in an absolute failure in an unprecedented crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. In the light of such changes, the interaction between the people is a determining factor to limit an outbreak among the staff members of an organization to prevent any disruption in the process of the service/product they provide. Thus, an effective staff scheduling policy can be the clincher to achieve this goal. 
\nIn this work, we consider a staff scheduling problem with the goal of minimizing the expected number of staff replacements that happens as a result of getting infected during a pandemic. In this days-off scheduling problem, we discuss a two-stage optimization approach where we first, determine the optimal scheduling patterns for the staff members and next, we will assign them to different resources so that the interaction between the staff members is minimized. In the proposed mathematical formulation for the problem, we consider the characteristics of the disease and the situation of the public health at different stages of the pandemic such as the incubation period, the probability of getting infected on a working day versus a rest-day, and the availability of swab tests. We design a column generation algorithm to solve the optimization model which requires up to 70% less computational power compared to the traditional algorithms that solve the problem when all available patterns are generated. A simulation model is also designed to compare the effectiveness of our suggested policies with the traditional scheduling policies. We examine our findings using data from the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre (GRRCC), which is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research centre located in Kitchener, Ontario. Particularly, we worked closely with the Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology who plans and delivers radiation therapy treatments to cancer patients and treats over 2000 new patients annually. Our results show that depending on the different stages of a pandemic, the proposed staff scheduling policies can lead up to 20% less full-time equivalent staff replacements which have a significant impact on the availability of the centre's resources as well as the patient flow in long-term.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.588
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it