Appointments in care pathways: the Geo^x/D/1 queue with slot reservations

DOI10.1007/S11134-014-9402-1MaRDI QIDQ2263376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maartje E. Zonderland, Richard J. Boucherie, Ahmad Al Hanbali

Publication date 18 March 2015

Published in Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-014-9402-1

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{Geo}^x/\mathrm{D}/1\) queueappointment planningcare pathwaysmatrix-geometric analysisprobability generating functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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• Literature review on multi-appointment scheduling problems in hospitals
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