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Radiotherapy department supported by an optimization algorithm for scheduling patient appointments [PDF]
Health Informatics JournalPrompt administration of radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most effective treatments against cancer. Each day, the radiotherapy departments of large hospitals must plan numerous irradiation sessions, considering the availability of human and material ...
Chavez Marcela +9 more
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Stochastic radiotherapy appointment scheduling [PDF]
Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2021 AbstractWhen scheduling the starting times for treatment appointments of patients in hospitals or outpatient clinics such as radiotherapy centers, minimizing patient waiting time and simultaneously maximizing resource usage is crucial. Significant uncertainty in the treatment durations makes scheduling those activities particularly challenging.
Braune, Roland +2 more
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Stochastic scheduling of chemotherapy appointments considering patient acuity levels [PDF]
, 2023 The uncertainty in infusion durations and non-homogeneous care level needs of patients are the critical factors that lead to difficulties in chemotherapy scheduling. We study the problem of scheduling patient appointments and assigning patients to nurses
Gul, Serhat +7 more
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Limited waiting areas in outpatient clinics: an intervention to incorporate the effect of bridging times in blueprint schedules [PDF]
, 2022 BACKGROUND: Distancing measures enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic impose a restriction on the number of patients simultaneously present in hospital waiting areas. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate waiting area occupancy of an intervention that designs clinic blueprint
Boucherie, Richard J.; id_orcid +19 more
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The Appointment Scheduling Game [PDF]
INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2014 This paper describes the appointment scheduling game (ASG), an easy to use teaching tool that reveals the challenges in managing advance patient scheduling systems, and also provides an introduction to simulation and decision analysis. In addition to describing the game, the paper provides recommendations on how to play it, student questions and ...
Antoine Sauré, Martin L. Puterman
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Practical quantum appointment scheduling [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2018 7 ...
Dave Touchette +2 more
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Audiology Video Models and Visual Schedules
, 2023 Accessible Video Models and Visual Schedules to be used by audiologists or parents at home to help facilitate audiological appointments for a child with Autism Spectrum ...
Haley Marie McTee +8 more
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The Contextual Appointment Scheduling Problem
CoRR, 2021 This study is concerned with the determination of optimal appointment times for a sequence of jobs with uncertain duration. We investigate the data-driven Appointment Scheduling Problem (ASP) when one has $n$ observations of $p$ features (covariates) related to the jobs as well as historical data.
Nima Salehi Sadghiani, Saeid Motiian
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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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Evaluation of the use of a Renal Health application by kidney transplant recipients [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2023 Objective: to evaluate the use of a renal health application by kidney transplant recipients. Method: a retrospective, observational study with a sample composed of individuals registered in the kidney transplant section of the application from July ...
Juliana Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira +5 more
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