Online appointment scheduling for a nuclear medicine department in a Chinese hospital (Q1737316)

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Online appointment scheduling for a nuclear medicine department in a Chinese hospital
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    Online appointment scheduling for a nuclear medicine department in a Chinese hospital (English)
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    27 March 2019
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    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.
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    online appointment scheduling
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    nuclear medicine
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    nonlinear integer programming
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    multiresources allocation
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