This paper presents a review of the literature on multi-appointment scheduling problems in
hospitals. In these problems, patients need to sequentially visit multiple resource types in a …

Multi-disciplinary planning in health care is an emerging research field that applies to many
health care areas with similar underlying planning characteristics. We provide a review of …

In the face of an increasingly high-demand environment for outpatients, achieving a balance
between allocation of limited medical resources and patient satisfaction has considerable …

Well-planned care arrangements with effective distribution of available resources have the
potential to address inefficiencies in mental health services. We begin by exploring the …

Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

This study presents a simulation optimization approach for scheduling medical tourists who
travel to destination medical centers (DMCs). The objective of this research is two-fold:(1) to …

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty in
premedication and infusion durations. In this paper, we formulate a two‐stage stochastic …

This paper presents the design and analysis of a newly proposed form of care delivery
called an integrated practice unit (IPU) in which a multi-disciplinary team of providers and …

Inspired by the service mode of family doctor contract service in China, this paper presents a
multi-period problem of the combination of home health care and outpatient service over a …

Appointment scheduling is one of the critical factors for improving patient satisfaction with
healthcare services. A practical and robust appointment scheduling solution allows clinics to …