Browsing by Subject "Appointment scheduling"
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Assessment of patient classification in appointment system design
(Production and Operations Management Society, 2008-05)This paper investigates two approaches to patient classification: using patient classification only for sequencing patient appointments at the time of booking and using patient classification for both sequencing and ... -
Coordinating collection and appointment scheduling operations at the blood donation sites
(Elsevier, 2015-09)According to the regulations imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Association of Blood Banks, in order to extract platelets, donated blood units have to be processed at a processing center ... -
An integrated analysis of capacity allocation and patient scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2019-06)This study analyzes two decision levels in appointment system design in the context of clinics that face seasonal demand for scheduled and walk-in patients. The macro-level problem addresses access rules dealing with ... -
Managing clinic variability with same-day scheduling, intervention for no-shows, and seasonal capacity adjustments
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-02)This study investigates demand and capacity strategies for managing clinic variability. These include (i) same-day scheduling to control random walk-ins, (ii) no-show intervention, where the clinic calls advance-booked ... -
Outpatient appointment scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2014-04)This study investigates appointment systems (AS), as combinations of access rules and appointment-scheduling rules, explicitly designed for dealing with walk-in seasonality. In terms of 'access rules', strategies are tested ... -
A universal appointment rule in the presence of no-shows and walk-ins
(Wiley, 2012-07)This study introduces a universal “Dome” appointment rule that can be parameterized through a planning constant for different clinics characterized by the environmental factors—no-shows, walk-ins, number of appointments ...
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