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Appointment Scheduling by Computer

1987
In many practices—especially multi-group and hospital-based practices with a high clerical turnover-patient scheduling can be a real problem. One physician is overbooked; another is underbooked. The patient asks for a return appointment and is scheduled for a new physician, unfamiliar with the case. Patients are often given appointments for times their
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The Medical Appointment Scheduler

2004
In order to enhance our understanding of how to best improve patient care, it was necessary to initially identify key questions that patients ask mostfrequently by recording actual calls made by home hemodialysis patients to a dialysis clinic over a threemonth period.
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Scheduling Appointment Slots

2014
This chapter describes how appointments can be distributed over the week and subsequently over the day.
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Advance Patient Appointment Scheduling

2017
This chapter describes the use of the linear programming approach to approximate dynamic programming as a means of solving advance patient appointment scheduling problems, which are problems typically intractable using standard solution techniques. Starting from the linear programming approach to discounted infinite-horizon Markov decision processes ...
Antoine Sauré, Martin L. Puterman
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Scheduling appointments for walk-ins

International Journal of Production Economics, 2017
Abstract In addition to scheduled patients, most hospitals in Japan accept walk-ins, and the reduction of the waiting times of both scheduled patients and walk-ins is one of the managerial issues that need to be tackled. Under the stochastic behavior of the consultation time and the arrival of walk-ins, the present study proposes a scheduling method ...
Katsumi Morikawa, Katsuhiko Takahashi
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Efficient appointment scheduling

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1957
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Appointment scheduling.

Dental survey, 1970
M B, Mitchell, F, Gautreau
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Appointment Scheduling in Health Care

2009
We propose two complementary approaches to the scheduling of outpatient appointments. The first approach is to dynamically assign appointment times depending on the continuously updated patient schedule. The second approach is to statically design the system by either limiting the appointment backlog or regulating the demand rate through controlling ...
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Appointment Schedule

2012
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Patient Appointment Scheduling

2017
Joonyup Eun, Sangbok Lee, Yuehwern Yih
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