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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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No-Show in Medical Appointments with Machine Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review
Information, 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
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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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Customer Appointment Analysis in Automobile Dealerships
Proceedings 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
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International 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
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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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Appointment Scheduling with Discrete Random Durations [PDF]
Mathematics of Operations Research, 2009 We consider the problem of determining an optimal appointment schedule for a given sequence of jobs (e.g., medical procedures) on a single processor (e.g., operating room, examination facility, physician), to minimize the expected total underage and overage costs when each job has a random processing duration given by a joint discrete probability ...
Mehmet A. Begen, Maurice Queyranne
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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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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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