Appointment scheduling problem in complexity systems of the healthcare services: A comprehensive review

A Ala, F Chen - Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a comprehensive review of Appointment Scheduling (AS) in healthcare
service while we propose appointment scheduling problems and various applications and …

[HTML][HTML] Operations management of outpatient chemotherapy process: An optimization-oriented comprehensive review

M Hadid, A Elomri, T El Mekkawy, O Jouini… - Operations Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Worldwide, chemotherapy centers that provide outpatient services face significant
challenges owing to increased demand and limited resources. Therefore, outpatient …

Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach

M Issabakhsh, S Lee, H Kang - Health care management science, 2021 - Springer
Infusion centers are experiencing greater demand, resulting in long patient wait times. The
duration of chemotherapy treatment sessions often varies, and this uncertainty also …

Improving patient-care services at an oncology clinic using a flexible and adaptive scheduling procedure

P Hooshangi-Tabrizi, I Contreras, N Bhuiyan… - Expert Systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies an online scheduling problem dealing with patients' multiple requests for
chemotherapy treatments at the cancer centre of a major metropolitan hospital in Canada …

Hybrid harmony search for stochastic scheduling of chemotherapy outpatient appointments

RR Corsini, A Costa, S Fichera, V Parrinello - Algorithms, 2022 - mdpi.com
This research deals with the same-day chemotherapy outpatient scheduling problem that is
recognized as a leading strategy to pursue the objective of reducing patient waiting time …

System design of outpatient chemotherapy oncology departments through simulation and design of experiments

RR Corsini, A Costa, S Fichera, A Pluchino… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the design problem of outpatient chemotherapy oncology
departments. The objective is to identify the most effective resource configuration (eg …

Integrated consultation and chemotherapy scheduling with stochastic treatment times

M Haghi, H Hashemi Doulabi, I Contreras… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper studies the integrated scheduling of consultation and treatment appointments for
chemotherapy patients, while taking into account the stochastic duration of injection …

Clustering and stochastic simulation optimization for outpatient chemotherapy appointment planning and scheduling

M Hadid, A Elomri, R Padmanabhan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment (OCA) planning and scheduling is a process of
distributing appointments to available days and times to be handled by various resources …

A column generation approach to intraday scheduling of chemotherapy patients

G Lyon, A Cataldo, G Angulo, PA Rey… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Chemotherapy scheduling at cancer treatment centres is a complex problem due to high
and growing demand, diversity of treatment protocols, limitations on resources and the need …

Improving chemotherapy infusion operations through the simulation of scheduling heuristics: a case study

RF Slocum, HL Jones, MT Fletcher, BM McConnell… - Health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, chemotherapy treatments have dramatically shifted to outpatient
services such that nearly 90% of all infusions are now administered outpatient. This shift has …