An efficient multi-agent patient scheduling using market based coordination mechanism

Kanaga, E. Grace Mary; Darius, Preethi S. H.; Valarmathi, M. L.

doi:10.1109/iama.2009.5228084

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“…Resources are used for treatment purposes [15,22,32,36,56,65,79,82,86,88,101,110,111,129,138] Resources are used for diagnostic purposes [5,31,39,40,41,42,61,66,76,78,85,92,99,100,130,131,137] Some resources are used for diagnostic purposes, while others are used for treatment purposes [6,17,28,45,48,52,64,74,75,102,119,124,134] Resources are not explicitly defined [4,43,44,63,77,…”

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“…Minimize access time (or percentage of patients who cannot be seen before a certain deadline) [17,28,32,88,100,101,102,111] Minimize the idle time of resources [15,17,31,74,82,85,89,92] Maximize satisfaction [4,39,44,92,97,98] Minimize the time to complete all tasks (or minimize the waiting time between two consecutive steps) [5,6,17,31,32,40,41,42,43,48,63,64,65,66,75,76,78,85,88,89,99,100,101,102,111,114,124,…”

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“…Online scheduling [6,17,28,42,44,45,63,77,78,79,82,89,92,97,98,99,124,130,131] Offline scheduling [5,15,22,31,32,36,39,40,41,48,52,56,61,64,65,66,74,75,76,85,86,88,96,99,100,101,102,105,110,111,114,119,129,…”

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“…Tested with fictional data [5,15,22,42,43,63,64,75,77,78,89,92,97,98,114,119,130,138] Tested with real data, but not applied in practice [4,5,6,17,28,31,32,36,39,40,41,44,48,52,56,66,74,79,85,88,99,100,101,102,105,111,124,129,134,137] Tested in practice, ongoing or not permanently implemented [65,82,86] Teste...…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[4,36,39,43,44,48,52,61,63,64,74,75,76,77,89,96,97,98,105,111] Rehabilitation department[17,32,56,65,82,110,119,134,138] Facility for diagnostic tests[5,6,31,40,41,42,66,78,92,99,130,131,137] Oncology department[15,28,45,85,86,100,101,102,124] Operating room scheduling[22,…”

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Literature review on multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals

Marynissen

Demeulemeester

2019

European Journal of Operational Research

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This paper presents a review of the literature on multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals. In these problems, patients need to sequentially visit multiple resource types in a hospital setting so they can receive treatment or be diagnosed. Therefore, each patient is assigned a specific path over a subset of the considered resources and each step needs to be scheduled. The main aim of these problems is to let each patient visit the resources in his or her subset within the allotted time to receive timely care. This is important because a delayed diagnosis or treatment may result in adverse health effects. Additionally, with multiappointment scheduling, hospitals have the opportunity to augment patient satisfaction, allowing the patient to visit the hospital less frequently. To structure the growing body of literature in this field and aid researchers in the field, a classification scheme is proposed and used to classify the scientific work on multi-appointment scheduling in hospitals published before the end of 2017.The results show that multi-appointment scheduling problems are becoming increasingly popular. In fact, multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals are currently gaining progressively more momentum in the academic literature.

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