Online appointment scheduling for a nuclear medicine department in a Chinese hospital
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Online appointment scheduling for a nuclear medicine department in a Chinese hospital
zbMATH Open document ID: 1411.90172
DOI: 10.1155/2018/5148215
author: Qian Xiao
author: Li Luo
author: Shu-zhen Zhao
author: Xiao-bin Ran
author: Ya-bing Feng
published in: Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine
publication date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: 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.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B36
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B32
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90C10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90C30
zbMATH DE Number: 7042937
zbMATH Keywords: online appointment scheduling
zbMATH Keywords: nuclear medicine
zbMATH Keywords: nonlinear integer programming
zbMATH Keywords: multiresources allocation
Wikidata QID: Q55317310
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5148215
OpenAlex ID: W2796577701
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DBLP publication ID: journals/cmmm/XiaoLZRF18
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7042937