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Robust Appointment Scheduling in Healthcare
Mathematics, 2022 The quality and experience of healthcare systems affect the economy and prosperity of cities all over the world. Governments of several countries are struggling to improve the efficiency of their healthcare systems and decrease healthcare spending costs.
Yuan Gao +3 more
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A Dataset of Service Time and Related Patient Characteristics from an Outpatient Clinic
Data, 2023 Outpatient clinics’ productivity largely depends on their appointment scheduling systems. It is crucial for appointment scheduling to understand the intrinsic heterogeneity in patient and service types and act accordingly.
Haolin Feng +4 more
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Dynamic appointment scheduling for outpatient clinics with multiple physicians and patient choice
Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2022 Mitigating the adverse effects of uncertainty in appointment systems, arising from heterogeneous patient needs and preferences, is critical to the effective use of scarce medical resources and patient satisfaction.
Chongjun Yan +3 more
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Stochastic radiotherapy appointment scheduling [PDF]
Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2021 AbstractWhen scheduling the starting times for treatment appointments of patients in hospitals or outpatient clinics such as radiotherapy centers, minimizing patient waiting time and simultaneously maximizing resource usage is crucial. Significant uncertainty in the treatment durations makes scheduling those activities particularly challenging.
Braune, Roland +2 more
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Practical quantum appointment scheduling [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2018 7 ...
Touchette, Dave +2 more
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Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling [PDF]
Health Care Management Science, 2007 In this paper optimal outpatient appointment scheduling is studied. A local search procedure is derived that converges to the optimal schedule with a weighted average of expected waiting times of patients, idle time of the doctor and tardiness (lateness) as objective. No-shows are allowed to happen. For certain combinations of parameters the well-known
Kaandorp, G., Koole, G.M.
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Journal of Patient Experience, 2022 A questionnaire was developed to evaluate the journey experienced by patients from identifying a need to see a community specialist in Israel's public healthcare system, through scheduling an appointment and attending.
Osnat Luxenburg MD +7 more
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No-Show in Medical Appointments with Machine Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review
Information, 2022 No-show appointments in healthcare is a problem faced by medical centers around the world, and understanding the factors associated with no-show behavior is essential.
Luiz Henrique Américo Salazar +3 more
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Customer Appointment Analysis in Automobile Dealerships
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2022 Appointment scheduling prior to in-person visit to vehicle service centers is a well-known activity in our daily lives; we often do that to save our- selves time during our visits.
Priya Saha +2 more
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Dynamic Appointment Scheduling
, 2021 This paper considers appointment scheduling in a setting in which at every client arrival the schedule of all future clients can be adapted. Starting our analysis with an explicit treatment of the case of exponentially distributed service times, we then develop a phase-type-based approach to also cover cases in which the service times' squared ...
Mahes, Roshan +3 more
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