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Online Appointment Scheduling for a Nuclear Medicine Department in a Chinese Hospital
Joint Authors
Luo, Li
Xiao, Qian
Zhao, Shu-zhen
Ran, Xiao-bin
Feng, Ya-bing
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-04-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Nuclear medicine, a subspecialty of radiology, plays an important role in proper diagnosis and timely treatment.
Multiple resources, especially short-lived radiopharmaceuticals involved in the process of nuclear medical examination, constitute a unique problem in appointment scheduling.
Aiming at achieving scientific and reasonable appointment scheduling in the West China Hospital (WCH), a typical class A tertiary hospital in China, we developed an online appointment scheduling algorithm based on an offline nonlinear integer programming model which considers multiresources allocation, the time window constraints imposed by short-lived radiopharmaceuticals, and the stochastic nature of the patient requests when scheduling patients.
A series of experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed strategy based on data provided by the WCH.
The results show that the examination amount increases by 29.76% compared with the current one with a significant increase in the resource utilization and timely rate.
Besides, it also has a high stability for stochastic factors and bears the advantage of convenient and economic operation.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Xiao, Qian& Luo, Li& Zhao, Shu-zhen& Ran, Xiao-bin& Feng, Ya-bing. 2018. Online Appointment Scheduling for a Nuclear Medicine Department in a Chinese Hospital. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1132057
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Xiao, Qian…[et al.]. Online Appointment Scheduling for a Nuclear Medicine Department in a Chinese Hospital. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1132057
American Medical Association (AMA)
Xiao, Qian& Luo, Li& Zhao, Shu-zhen& Ran, Xiao-bin& Feng, Ya-bing. Online Appointment Scheduling for a Nuclear Medicine Department in a Chinese Hospital. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1132057
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1132057