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Scheduled appointments and patient-staff compliance.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1987Studies of medication compliance have focused primarily on patient resistance to treatment, medication side effects, or the complexity of the medication regimen. This study of patient visits in a large psychiatric clinic found that, because of failure to schedule appointments or to notify receptionists of rescheduled appointments, physician ...
Peter, Gariti +3 more
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Appointment Scheduling with No‐Shows and Overbooking
Production and Operations Management, 2014We study an overbooking model for scheduling arrivals at a medical facility under no‐show behavior, with patients having different no‐show probabilities and different weights. The scheduler has to assign the patients to time slots in such a way that she minimizes the expected weighted sum of the patients' waiting times and the doctor's idle time and ...
Christos Zacharias, Michael Pinedo
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Modelling and optimization of outpatient appointment scheduling
RAIRO - Operations Research, 2015Summary: We consider the problem of appointment scheduling for outpatient departments in health care systems. The objective is to design an appointment system that minimizes the average waiting time per patient, while at the same time ensuring the effective use of resources, by maximizing doctor utilization and minimizing the average number of patients
Alrefaei, Mahmoud H., Diabat, Ali
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Appointment Scheduling Under Patient Preference and No-Show Behavior
Operations Research, 2014Motivated by the rising popularity of electronic appointment booking systems, we develop appointment scheduling models that take into account the patient preferences regarding when they would like to be seen. The service provider dynamically decides which appointment days to make available for the patients.
Feldman, Jacob +3 more
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Sequencing and Scheduling Appointments with Potential Call-In Patients
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011This paper studies appointment scheduling for a combination of routine patients who book well in advance and last‐minute patients who call for an appointment later that same day. We determine when these same‐day patients should be scheduled throughout the day, and how the prospect of their arrivals affects the appointment times of the routine patients.
Rachel R. Chen, Lawrence W. Robinson
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Scheduling and Sequencing Arrivals to an Appointment System
Journal of Service Research, 2001The authors develop methods for optimally scheduling and sequencing customer arrivals to a single-server appointment system. Customers are characterized by probabilistic service times with distinct distributions, and the server works according to a first-come, first-served discipline.
Peter M. Vanden Bosch, Dennis C. Dietz
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NFC enabled intelligent hospital appointment and medication scheduling
2014 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT), 2014Patient Appointment and medication Scheduling is necessary to manage and keep efficient tracking of day to day functionalities in health sector. It may be mentioned that a well-designed appointment Scheduling System can help to deliver timely and convenient access to medical services and enhance patient satisfaction and physician efficiency.
Suresh Sankarananrayanan +1 more
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Dynamic appointment scheduling with patient preferences and choices
Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2015Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to maximize the expected revenue of the outpatient department considering patient preferences and choices. Design/methodology/approach – Patient preference refers to the preferred physician and time slot that patients hold ...
Jin Wang, Richard Y.K. Fung
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Appointment scheduling algorithm considering routine and urgent patients
Expert Systems with Applications, 2014Abstract This paper derives a solution approach to solve the outpatient appointment schedule problem for given numbers of routine and urgent patients considering a no-show probability to minimize the weighted sum of average patient wait time, physician idle time and overtime.
Jiafu Tang, Chongjun Yan, Pingping Cao
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Appointment scheduling and rescheduling problems in service systems
2023Appointment scheduling and rescheduling are important problems in service systems. A good appointment schedule can tolerate uncertainties that occur frequently, such as no-shows and last-minute cancellations. Some other uncertainties are rare events and generally ignored in making an appointment schedule.
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