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Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling

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  1. Kemper, Benjamin & Klaassen, Chris A.J. & Mandjes, Michel, 2014. "Optimized appointment scheduling," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 239(1), pages 243-255.
  2. Sabine Sickinger & Rainer Kolisch, 2009. "The performance of a generalized Bailey–Welch rule for outpatient appointment scheduling under inpatient and emergency demand," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 408-419, December.
  3. Ho-Yin Mak & Ying Rong & Jiawei Zhang, 2014. "Sequencing Appointments for Service Systems Using Inventory Approximations," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 16(2), pages 251-262, May.
  4. Guo, Hainan & Xie, Yue & Jiang, Bowen & Tang, Jiafu, 2024. "When outpatient appointment meets online consultation: A joint scheduling optimization framework," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
  5. Van-Anh Truong, 2015. "Optimal Advance Scheduling," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 61(7), pages 1584-1597, July.
  6. Turkcan, Ayten & Zeng, Bo & Muthuraman, Kumar & Lawley, Mark, 2011. "Sequential clinical scheduling with service criteria," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 214(3), pages 780-795, November.
  7. Ying Yang & Shoucheng Luo & Jing Fan & Xinye Zhou & Chunyu Fu & Guochun Tang, 2019. "Study on specialist outpatient matching appointment and the balance matching model," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 20-39, January.
  8. Yong-Hong Kuo & Hari Balasubramanian & Yan Chen, 2020. "Medical appointment overbooking and optimal scheduling: tradeoffs between schedule efficiency and accessibility to service," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 72-101, March.
  9. Ellen Campos Sousa & Luciana Freire, 2023. "The effect of brief mindfulness‐based intervention on patient satisfaction and loyalty after waiting," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(2), pages 906-942, April.
  10. Mahes, Roshan & Mandjes, Michel & Boon, Marko & Taylor, Peter, 2024. "Adaptive scheduling in service systems: A Dynamic programming approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 312(2), pages 605-626.
  11. Christos Zacharias & Tallys Yunes, 2020. "Multimodularity in the Stochastic Appointment Scheduling Problem with Discrete Arrival Epochs," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(2), pages 744-763, February.
  12. Yun Zhou & Mahmut Parlar & Vedat Verter & Shannon Fraser, 2021. "Surgical Scheduling with Constrained Patient Waiting Times," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 30(9), pages 3253-3271, September.
  13. Jaime González & Juan-Carlos Ferrer & Alejandro Cataldo & Luis Rojas, 2019. "A proactive transfer policy for critical patient flow management," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 287-303, June.
  14. Alex Kuiper & Robert H. Lee, 2022. "Appointment Scheduling for Multiple Servers," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(10), pages 7422-7440, October.
  15. Gang Du & Xinyue Li & Hui Hu & Xiaoling Ouyang, 2018. "Optimizing Daily Service Scheduling for Medical Diagnostic Equipment Considering Patient Satisfaction and Hospital Revenue," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-23, September.
  16. William P. Millhiser & Emre A. Veral, 2019. "A decision support system for real-time scheduling of multiple patient classes in outpatient services," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 180-195, March.
  17. Thu Nguyen & Appa Sivakumar & Stephen Graves, 2015. "A network flow approach for tactical resource planning in outpatient clinics," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 124-136, June.
  18. Qingxia Kong & Chung-Yee Lee & Chung-Piaw Teo & Zhichao Zheng, 2013. "Scheduling Arrivals to a Stochastic Service Delivery System Using Copositive Cones," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 61(3), pages 711-726, June.
  19. Xiuli Qu & Yidong Peng & Nan Kong & Jing Shi, 2013. "A two-phase approach to scheduling multi-category outpatient appointments – A case study of a women’s clinic," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 197-216, September.
  20. Vink, Wouter & Kuiper, Alex & Kemper, Benjamin & Bhulai, Sandjai, 2015. "Optimal appointment scheduling in continuous time: The lag order approximation method," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(1), pages 213-219.
  21. Huiqiao Su & Guohua Wan & Shan Wang, 2019. "Online scheduling for outpatient services with heterogeneous patients and physicians," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 123-149, January.
  22. Agnihothri, Saligrama & Cappanera, Paola & Nonato, Maddalena & Visintin, Filippo, 2024. "Appointment scheduling in surgery pre-admission testing clinics," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
  23. S. Ayca Erdogan & Brian Denton, 2013. "Dynamic Appointment Scheduling of a Stochastic Server with Uncertain Demand," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 25(1), pages 116-132, February.
  24. Saghafian, Soroush & Trichakis, Nikolaos & Zhu, Ruihao & Shih, Helen A., 2019. "Joint Patient Selection and Scheduling under No-Shows: Theory and Application in Proton Therapy," Working Paper Series rwp19-019, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  25. Harris, Shannon L. & May, Jerrold H. & Vargas, Luis G. & Foster, Krista M., 2020. "The effect of cancelled appointments on outpatient clinic operations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 847-860.
  26. Soroush Saghafian & Nikolaos Trichakis & Ruihao Zhu & Helen A. Shih, 2023. "Joint patient selection and scheduling under no‐shows: Theory and application in proton therapy," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(2), pages 547-563, February.
  27. Vahab Vahdat & Jacqueline Griffin & James E. Stahl, 2018. "Decreasing patient length of stay via new flexible exam room allocation policies in ambulatory care clinics," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 492-516, December.
  28. Xuanzhu Fan & Jiafu Tang & Chongjun Yan, 2020. "Appointment scheduling optimization with two stages diagnosis for clinic outpatient," Computational Statistics, Springer, vol. 35(2), pages 469-490, June.
  29. van Eekelen, Wouter, 2023. "Distributionally robust views on queues and related stochastic models," Other publications TiSEM 9b99fc05-9d68-48eb-ae8c-9, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  30. Wen-Ya Wang & Diwakar Gupta, 2011. "Adaptive Appointment Systems with Patient Preferences," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 13(3), pages 373-389, July.
  31. Tugba Cayirli & Kum Khiong Yang & Ser Aik Quek, 2012. "A Universal Appointment Rule in the Presence of No‐Shows and Walk‐Ins," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 21(4), pages 682-697, July.
  32. Moshe Haviv & Liron Ravner, 2021. "A survey of queueing systems with strategic timing of arrivals," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 99(1), pages 163-198, October.
  33. Qing Li & Qiang Su & Chao Xu, 2022. "Surgery scheduling of pelvic fracture patients with stochastic recovery time," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 277-321, November.
  34. T. Meersman & B. Maenhout, 2022. "Multi-objective optimisation for constructing cyclic appointment schedules for elective and urgent patients," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 312(2), pages 909-948, May.
  35. Xin Chen & Menglong Li, 2021. "Discrete Convex Analysis and Its Applications in Operations: A Survey," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 30(6), pages 1904-1926, June.
  36. Zhou, Shenghai & Li, Debiao & Yin, Yong, 2021. "Coordinated appointment scheduling with multiple providers and patient-and-physician matching cost in specialty care," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
  37. Jianzhe Luo & Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni & Serhan Ziya, 2012. "Appointment Scheduling Under Patient No-Shows and Service Interruptions," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 14(4), pages 670-684, October.
  38. Katsumi Morikawa & Katsuhiko Takahashi & Daisuke Hirotani, 2018. "Performance evaluation of candidate appointment schedules using clearing functions," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 509-518, March.
  39. Christos Zacharias & Nan Liu & Mehmet A. Begen, 2024. "Dynamic Interday and Intraday Scheduling," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 72(1), pages 317-335, January.
  40. Ho-Yin Mak & Ying Rong & Jiawei Zhang, 2015. "Appointment Scheduling with Limited Distributional Information," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 61(2), pages 316-334, February.
  41. Pan, Xingwei & Geng, Na & Xie, Xiaolan & Wen, Jing, 2020. "Managing appointments with waiting time targets and random walk-ins," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  42. Matthias Grot & Simon Kugai & Lukas Degen & Isabel Wiemer & Brigitte Werners & Birgitta M. Weltermann, 2023. "Small Changes in Patient Arrival and Consultation Times Have Large Effects on Patients’ Waiting Times: Simulation Analyses for Primary Care," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(3), pages 1-11, January.
  43. De Vuyst, Stijn & Bruneel, Herwig & Fiems, Dieter, 2014. "Computationally efficient evaluation of appointment schedules in health care," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 237(3), pages 1142-1154.
  44. Li Luo & Ying Zhou & Bernard T. Han & Jialing Li, 2019. "An optimization model to determine appointment scheduling window for an outpatient clinic with patient no-shows," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 68-84, March.
  45. Reihaneh, Mohammad & Ansari, Sina & Farhadi, Farbod, 2023. "Patient appointment scheduling at hemodialysis centers: An exact branch and price approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(1), pages 35-52.
  46. Paola Cappanera & Filippo Visintin & Carlo Banditori & Daniele Feo, 2019. "Evaluating the long-term effects of appointment scheduling policies in a magnetic resonance imaging setting," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 31(1), pages 212-254, March.
  47. van Eekelen, Wouter & den Hertog, Dick & van Leeuwaarden, J.S.H., 2025. "Distributionally robust appointment scheduling that can deal with independent service times," Other publications TiSEM e6ac8cc7-43c6-42c6-9e11-f, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  48. Dongyang Wang & Kumar Muthuraman & Douglas Morrice, 2019. "Coordinated Patient Appointment Scheduling for a Multistation Healthcare Network," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(3), pages 599-618, May.
  49. Linda V. Green & Sergei Savin, 2008. "Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 56(6), pages 1526-1538, December.
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  51. Kuiper, Alex & de Mast, Jeroen & Mandjes, Michel, 2021. "The problem of appointment scheduling in outpatient clinics: A multiple case study of clinical practice," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
  52. Qingxia Kong & Shan Li & Nan Liu & Chung-Piaw Teo & Zhenzhen Yan, 2020. "Appointment Scheduling Under Time-Dependent Patient No-Show Behavior," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(8), pages 3480-3500, August.
  53. Yu Fu & Amarnath Banerjee, 2021. "A Stochastic Programming Model for Service Scheduling with Uncertain Demand: an Application in Open-Access Clinic Scheduling," SN Operations Research Forum, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 1-32, September.
  54. Shan Wang & Nan Liu & Guohua Wan, 2020. "Managing Appointment-Based Services in the Presence of Walk-in Customers," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(2), pages 667-686, February.
  55. Ajala, O. H & Adebola, F. B, 2025. "Patient Scheduling with Approximate Dynamic Programming for Optimization of Health Care Services," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS), vol. 10(11), pages 1012-1027, November.
  56. Cai, Yun & Song, Haiqing & Wang, Shan, 2024. "Managing appointment-based services with electronic visits," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 315(3), pages 863-878.
  57. Christos Zacharias & Michael Pinedo, 2017. "Managing Customer Arrivals in Service Systems with Multiple Identical Servers," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 19(4), pages 639-656, October.
  58. Morikawa, Katsumi & Takahashi, Katsuhiko, 2017. "Scheduling appointments for walk-ins," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 60-66.
  59. Dogru, Ali K. & Melouk, Sharif H., 2019. "Adaptive appointment scheduling for patient-centered medical homes," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 166-181.
  60. Shenghai Zhou & Yichuan Ding & Woonghee Tim Huh & Guohua Wan, 2021. "Constant Job‐Allowance Policies for Appointment Scheduling: Performance Bounds and Numerical Analysis," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 30(7), pages 2211-2231, July.
  61. Deceuninck, Matthias & Fiems, Dieter & De Vuyst, Stijn, 2018. "Outpatient scheduling with unpunctual patients and no-shows," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(1), pages 195-207.
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  63. Christos Zacharias & Mor Armony, 2017. "Joint Panel Sizing and Appointment Scheduling in Outpatient Care," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 63(11), pages 3978-3997, November.
  64. Song-Hee Kim & Ward Whitt & Won Chul Cha, 2018. "A Data-Driven Model of an Appointment-Generated Arrival Process at an Outpatient Clinic," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 30(1), pages 181-199, February.
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