Compatibility of short and long term objectives for dynamic patient admission scheduling.

•A full Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation is provided for the DPAS.•A short term objective design principle is introduced for dynamic scheduling.•A new state of the art short term strategy is developed for the DPAS.•Three MIP formulations are applied for solving short term DPAS problems.•Lower bounds are calculated using Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition and column generation.