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Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling [PDF]

open access: yesHealth 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Factors Affecting the Patient Journey in Scheduling a Specialist Appointment in a Public Healthcare System

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

No-Show in Medical Appointments with Machine Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesInformation, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Robust Appointment Scheduling with Heterogeneous Costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Designing simple appointment systems that under uncertainty in service times, try to achieve both high utilization of expensive medical equipment and personnel as well as short waiting time for patients, has long been an interesting and challenging ...
Schulz, Andreas S., Udwani, Rajan
core   +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

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

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

Integral multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper presents a methodology to plan treatments for rehabilitation outpatients. These patients require a series of treatments by therapists from various disciplines.
Braaksma, A.   +3 more
core   +14 more sources

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