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Scheduling rules to achieve lead-time targets in outpatient appointment systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper considers how to schedule appointments for outpatients, for a clinic that is subject to appointment lead-time targets for both new and returning patients. We develop heuristic rules, which are the exact and relaxed appointment scheduling rules,
Graves, Stephen C.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Customer Appointment Analysis in Automobile Dealerships

open access: yesProceedings 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
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Appointment Scheduling

open access: yes, 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Natural Language Dialogue Service for Appointment Scheduling Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task.
Busemann, Stephan   +5 more
core   +6 more sources

COSMA - multi-participant NL interaction for appointment scheduling [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
We discuss the use of NL systems in the domain of appointment scheduling. Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many people and organizations, and typically solved using communication in natural language.
Busemann, Stephan   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Comparison between Outpatient Appointment Scheduling and Chemotherapy Outpatient Appointment Scheduling [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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
openaire   +1 more source

Assessment of the Correlation between Appointment Scheduling and Patient Satisfaction in a Pediatric Dental Setup

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dentistry, 2014
Introduction. The practice of modern pediatric dentistry requires delivery of quality care in combination with adherence to excellent business as well as time management principles.
Amar N. Katre
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Appointment Rescheduling of Trucks under Uncertainty of Arrival Time

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in Access to Outpatient Care in the State of Ohio for an Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Patient

open access: yesArthroscopy, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning for Prediction of Clinical Appointment No-Shows [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

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