Shah A R, Farrow S C
Med Educ. 1976 Nov;10(6):476-9.
The number of pre-registration house posts allocated by the London Hospital rapidly increased in 1973. This made solution by hand of the allocation problem time consuming and complex. The Operational Research Unit was approahced and a computer aided scheme was designed which was subsequently adopted. Various alternative allocation methods are discussed and examples given. The results of the first five allocations are presented. The percentage of applicants obtaining one of their first three choices varied from 61 to 70%. Of consultants who expressed a choice, the percentage obtaining one of their first three choices was in the range of 72-94%. The allocation scheme has two principal advantages over methods used elsewhere. It is extremely flexible, allowing various weights to be given to either applicant or consultant. It also produces a complete solution which is optimal in terms of the numerical criteria specified. Details of the assignment algorithm are given in the Appendix.
1973年，伦敦医院分配的预注册住院医师职位数量迅速增加。这使得手动解决分配问题既耗时又复杂。于是向运筹学部门求助，设计了一个计算机辅助方案并随后采用。讨论了各种替代分配方法并给出了示例。给出了前五次分配的结果。获得前三个选择之一的申请人百分比在61%至70%之间。在表达了选择的顾问中，获得前三个选择之一的百分比在72%至94%之间。该分配方案相对于其他地方使用的方法有两个主要优点。它极其灵活，允许对申请人或顾问给予不同的权重。它还产生一个完整的解决方案，就指定的数值标准而言是最优的。分配算法的详细信息见附录。
