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Integrated consultation and chemotherapy scheduling with stochastic treatment times

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  • Maryam Haghi
  • Hossein Hashemi Doulabi
  • Ivan Contreras
  • Nadia Bhuiyan

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This paper studies the integrated scheduling of consultation and treatment appointments for chemotherapy patients, while taking into account the stochastic duration of injection. Patients may require one or both types of consultation and treatment appointments. The objective is to minimize the clinic’s overtime and the waiting time of patients in the clinic. To formulate the problem, we develop two two-stage stochastic programming models. We also propose a sample average approximation algorithm as the solution method. To improve the efficiency of our solution approach, we devise a specialized algorithm that quickly evaluates a given first-stage solution for a large set of scenarios, without solving the second-stage models. Several computational experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of proposed models and algorithms.

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  • Maryam Haghi & Hossein Hashemi Doulabi & Ivan Contreras & Nadia Bhuiyan, 2023. "Integrated consultation and chemotherapy scheduling with stochastic treatment times," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 74(9), pages 2012-2027, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:74:y:2023:i:9:p:2012-2027
    DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2022.2125842
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