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Comparison between Outpatient Appointment Scheduling and Chemotherapy Outpatient Appointment Scheduling [PDF]
The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology, 2016 Healthcare management has received tremendous interest among researchers as it deals with human health. In this paper, two applications of scheduling on healthcare systems are studied. These two applications are outpatient appointment scheduling and chemotherapy outpatient appointment scheduling.
M Heshmat, A Eltawil
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Dynamic Appointment Rescheduling of Trucks under Uncertainty of Arrival Time
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The uncertainty of the arrival time of trucks has increased the complexity of terminal operations. The truck appointment system (TAS) cannot respond to this problem in time, which can easily cause appointment invalidation and reduce the efficiency of ...
Bowei Xu +6 more
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Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, 2021 Purpose: To evaluate the impact of either Medicaid or private insurance on securing an appointment in an outpatient orthopaedic clinic and to determine waiting periods until an appointment as well as the relationship between population metrics and access
Robert N. Matar, M.D. +4 more
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Machine Learning for Prediction of Clinical Appointment No-Shows [PDF]
International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 2022 A no-show occurs when patient misses his appointment for visiting doctor in an outpatient clinic. No-shows result in inefficiencies in scheduling, capacity wastage and discontinuity in care.
Jeffin Joseph +3 more
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A simulation study of outpatient scheduling with multiple providers and a single device [PDF]
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2014 Effective outpatient appointment scheduling aims at reducing patient waiting time and operational costs, and improving resource utilization, especially given the stochastic nature of patient arrivals.
Xiao-Dan Wu +4 more
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Appointment Scheduling for Health Examination Customers Based on Two-stage Stochastic Simulation Optimization Algorithm [PDF]
Jisuanji gongcheng, 2021 In many health examination agencies,the unreasonable scheduling mechanisms make customers stay in the queue for longer time.This paper presents the study on the scheduling of health examination customers under stochastic service time.Using an appointment
LIU Dan, GENG Na
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Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2014 Purpose: This study is to develop a systematic approach for determining the most efficient patient appointment scheduling (PAS) model for a specific healthcare setting with its multiple appointments requests characteristics in order to increase patients’
Nazanin Aslani, Jun Zhang
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Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2022 Introduction The COVID 19 pandemic increased the need for rapid and accurate diagnostic testing for COVID. When testing became available, a systems response was needed to efficiently accommodate the high-volume flow of patients who needed testing.
Frederick North +5 more
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019 Medicaid patients are known to have reduced access to care compared with privately insured patients; however, quantifying this disparity with large controlled studies remains a challenge.
Walter R. Hsiang BS +7 more
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Appointment Scheduling at Outpatient Clinics Using Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach
IEEE Access, 2020 Clinics with a large volume of patients are often burdened with limited resources such as nurses and providers. Also, an efficient health system seeks short wait times for the patients to see the provider (indirect wait time) and within the clinic ...
Samira Fazel Anvaryazdi +2 more
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