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BackgroundPatients with cancer frequently encounter complex treatment pathways, often characterized by challenges with coordinating and scheduling appointments at various specialty services and locations.
Allan Fong +5 more
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Health care providers are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs and increase quality of their services. It has long been recognized that well-designed appointment systems have the potential to improve utilization of expensive personnel and medical equipment and to reduce waiting times for patients.
Mittal, Shashi +2 more
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Investigating Disparities in Physical Therapy Utilization: An Intersectionality Perspective
Objective: To investigate the role of race, ethnicity, language, insurance payor, and socioeconomic status, both individually and through an intersectional framework, on outpatient physical therapy (PT) utilization.
Lauren Rimmel, PT, DPT +6 more
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Ethical Redress of Racial Inequities in AI: Lessons from Decoupling Machine Learning from Optimization in Medical Appointment Scheduling. [PDF]
Shanklin R +3 more
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BackgroundIn many large health centers, patients face long appointment wait times and difficulties accessing care. Last-minute cancellations and patient no-shows leave unfilled slots in a clinician’s schedule, exacerbating delays ...
Smitha Ganeshan +8 more
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Appointment Scheduling with Delay Tolerance Heterogeneity
In this study, we investigate an appointment sequencing and scheduling problem with heterogeneous user delay tolerances under service time uncertainty. We aim to capture the delay tolerance effect with heterogeneity, in an operationally effective and computationally tractable fashion, for the appointment scheduling problem.
Shuming Wang +3 more
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Developing a Model for Dynamic Schedule of Heart Surgery based on Patient\'s Maximum Delay
Background: The operating rooms in each health center are one of the most sensitive units in the center, whereas scheduling and scheduling operations are in particular importance and their optimization has a significant effect on the optimization of the ...
Iman Dehghan +2 more
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Indicators for dental appointment scheduling in primary health care: a national cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Melo EA +5 more
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Truck Appointment Scheduling: A Review of Models and Algorithms
This paper provides a comprehensive review of truck appointment scheduling models and algorithms that support truck appointment systems (TASs) at container terminals.
Maria D. Gracia +2 more
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The supply chain of blood products in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Appointment scheduling and other restrictions. [PDF]
Kenan N, Diabat A.
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