Outpatient appointment systems in healthcare: A review of optimization studies

A Ahmadi-Javid, Z Jalali, KJ Klassen - European Journal of Operational …, 2017 - Elsevier
Outpatient appointment scheduling problems have recently gained increasing attention. This
paper provides a comprehensive review of recent analytical and numerical optimization …

Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

PJH Hulshof, N Kortbeek, RJ Boucherie, EW Hans… - Health …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Advance scheduling for chronic care under online or offline revisit uncertainty

X Shen, SC Du, YN Sun, PZH Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chronic disease patients often require revisits for long-term care. Online medical services
shift revisits to online, which can improve the access to chronic care and reduce the burden …

Operations research in healthcare: a survey

A Rais, A Viana - International transactions in operational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

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 …

Planning and scheduling in healthcare for better care coordination: Current understanding, trending topics, and future opportunities

S Youn, HN Geismar, M Pinedo - Production and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study reviews the research on planning and scheduling in healthcare published in
Production and Operations Management (POM) and other prestigious operations …

Dynamic scheduling of outpatient appointments under patient no-shows and cancellations

N Liu, S Ziya, VG Kulkarni - Manufacturing & Service …, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper develops a framework and proposes heuristic dynamic policies for scheduling
patient appointments, taking into account the fact that patients may cancel or not show up for …

Dynamic multi-appointment patient scheduling for radiation therapy

A Saure, J Patrick, S Tyldesley, ML Puterman - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Seeking to reduce the potential impact of delays on radiation therapy cancer patients such
as psychological distress, deterioration in quality of life and decreased cancer control and …

Appointment scheduling under patient preference and no-show behavior

J Feldman, N Liu, H Topaloglu… - Operations …, 2014 - pubsonline.informs.org
Motivated by the rising popularity of electronic appointment booking systems, we develop
appointment scheduling models that take into account the patient preferences regarding …

Patient assignment optimization in cloud healthcare systems: a distributed genetic algorithm

X Pang, YF Ge, K Wang, AJM Traina… - Health Information Science …, 2023 - Springer
Integrating Internet technologies with traditional healthcare systems has enabled the
emergence of cloud healthcare systems. These systems aim to optimize the balance …