purpose: nowadays cancer patients want more detailed information and greater participation in decisions about their care. as a consequence, the demands on health care system to satisfy the complex care needs of oncology patients have increased tremendously. methods and materials: as part of a quality improvement exercise at the radiation oncology department, allan blair cancer center, regina, s...

Nowdays, energy consumption as a critical issue in distributed computing systems with high performance has become so green computing tries to energy consumption, carbon footprint and CO2 emissions in high performance computing systems (HPCs) such as clusters, Grid and Cloud that a large number of parallel. Reducing energy consumption for high end computing can bring various benefits such as red...

Nowadays, flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is introduced as a response to the competitive environment. Scheduling of FMS is more complex and more difficult than the other scheduling production systems. One of the main factors in scheduling of FMS is variable time of taking orders from customers, which leads to a sudden change in the manufacturing process. Also, some problems are created in p...

Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating wastes (non-value added activities) through continuous improvement by conveying the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of production. In a more basic term, more value with less work. Since lean manufacturing eliminates many of the problems associated with poor production scheduling and line balancing, lean ma...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of 2 different interventions on wait times at a hospital outpatient pharmacy: (1) giving feedback to employees about customer satisfaction with wait times and (2) giving a combined intervention package that included giving more specific feedback about actual wait times and goal setting for wait time reduction in addition to the custom...

The demand for renal replacement therapy (RRT) from the growing number of patients suffering chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage (ESRD) in Nigeria is reported to be on rise. However, dialysis clinics are few with limited facilities meet increasing leading congestion, long waiting time increased length stay (LOS) clinics. This paper presents an optimisation model scheduling patient flow o...

This paper deals with a multi stage hybrid flow-shop problem (HFSP) that arises in privately Chemotherapy clinic. It aims to optimize the makespan of daily chemotherapy activity. Each patient must respect cyclic nature treatment plans made by his referent on- cologist while taking into account high variability resource requirements (treatment time, nurse pharmacy time). The requires assignment ...

BACKGROUND Non-attendance at paediatric urology outpatient appointments results in the patient's failure to receive medical care and wastes health care resources. OBJECTIVE To determine the utility of using routinely collected electronic health record (EHR) data for multi-centre analysis of variables predictive of patient noshows (NS) to identify areas for future intervention. METHODS Data ...