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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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A Review of Optimization Studies for System Appointment Scheduling
Axioms, 2023 In the face of an increasingly high-demand environment for outpatients, achieving a balance between allocation of limited medical resources and patient satisfaction has considerable social and economic benefits.
Tiantian Niu +7 more
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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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The Appointment Scheduling Game [PDF]
INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2014 This paper describes the appointment scheduling game (ASG), an easy to use teaching tool that reveals the challenges in managing advance patient scheduling systems, and also provides an introduction to simulation and decision analysis. In addition to describing the game, the paper provides recommendations on how to play it, student questions and ...
Antoine Sauré, Martin L. Puterman
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Practical quantum appointment scheduling [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2018 7 ...
Dave Touchette +2 more
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The Contextual Appointment Scheduling Problem
CoRR, 2021 This study is concerned with the determination of optimal appointment times for a sequence of jobs with uncertain duration. We investigate the data-driven Appointment Scheduling Problem (ASP) when one has $n$ observations of $p$ features (covariates) related to the jobs as well as historical data.
Nima Salehi Sadghiani, Saeid Motiian
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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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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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