Scheduling rules to achieve lead-time targets in outpatient appointment systems
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Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling.
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 Bailey-Welch rule is found to be the optim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Care Management Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1386-9620,1572-9389
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-016-9374-2