Lessons learned from treating patients with HIV infection can inform care systems for other chronic conditions. For antiretroviral treatment, attending appointments on time correlates with medication adherence; however, HIV clinics in East Africa, where attendance rates vary widely, rarely include systems to schedule appointments or to track missed appointments or patient follow-up. An introduc...

Uncertainty about possible train delays has an impact on train trips, as the exact arrival time is unknown during trip planning. Delays can lead to missing a connecting train at the transfer station, or to coming too late to an appointment at the destination. Facing this uncertainty, the traveler may wish to use an earlier train or a different connection arriving well before the appointment. Cu...

During a severe financial crisis, it is a priority to use scientific evidence to identify factors that enable therapeutic compliance by patients. This study aimed to evaluate a possible association between the number of patients who attended a medical appointment and had medicine prescribed and the number of these same patients who purchased the prescribed medicine and whether the level of reim...

This article proposes a framework to model and reason on what we call multi-calendar appointment scheduling problems. Multicalendar appointment scheduling problems such as planning a phone conference of three persons in France, Tunisia, and Japan refer to various temporal conditions, involving arbitrary calendric types such as months (Islamic months are defined differently from Gregorian months...

where he has a joint appointment in the Schools of Information Technology & Engineering and of Education. He is Director of Federal Relations and Strategic Alliances for the university and is on the core advisory faculty of GMU's Institute for Public Policy. His professional service centers on organizational redesign for increased effectiveness based on sophisticated technologies. His research ...

The full-truck-load route planning and scheduling with time appointment system falls in the class of Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW). In this paper, methods for improving the scheduling of intermodal trucks in deterministic and stochastic environments, where ISO containers need to be transferred between marine terminals, intermodal facilities, and end customers are investig...

The management of outpatient consultations constitutes an important aspect of planning activities in surgical services (Vissers, 1979). The scheduling process used for clinic appointments determines the appointment date for any patient referred for consultation about an operation (Jun et al., 1999). Within a regional network of hospitals, a variety of methods may be used for scheduling surgical...

Advance care directives (ACDs) are used in all Australian states and territories, but take different forms and names. In the Northern Territory, they are known as advance personal plans (APPs). An APP allows not only for advanced consent decisions in relation to life support and palliative care, but also the appointment of a substitute decision maker. The powers of the substitute decision maker...