State of the art in physician scheduling

M Erhard, J Schoenfelder, A Fügener… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, hospitals have faced increasing financial pressure due to rising costs
and changes in reimbursement policies. One of the reasons for this development is the …

Methodological approaches to support process improvement in emergency departments: a systematic review

MA Ortíz-Barrios, JJ Alfaro-Saíz - International journal of environmental …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The most commonly used techniques for addressing each Emergency Department (ED)
problem (overcrowding, prolonged waiting time, extended length of stay, excessive patient …

An integrated approach of machine learning and systems thinking for waiting time prediction in an emergency department

YH Kuo, NB Chan, JMY Leung, H Meng… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this study is to apply machine learning algorithms for real-time
and personalized waiting time prediction in emergency departments. We also aim to …

Dynamic scheduling of patients in emergency departments

TA de Queiroz, M Iori, A Kramer, YH Kuo - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Emergency department overcrowding is a global issue that poses a great threat to patient
health and safety. The timeliness of medical services provided to patients is crucial to …

EMS location-allocation problem under uncertainties

W Wang, S Wang, L Zhen, X Qu - … part E: logistics and transportation review, 2022 - Elsevier
Emergencies, especially those considered routine (ie, occurring on a daily basis), pose
great threats to health, life, and property. Immediate response and treatment can greatly …

A stochastic programming approach to the physician staffing and scheduling problem

JF Marchesi, S Hamacher, JL Fleck - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
A challenging problem for Emergency Department (ED) managers is determining the best
allocation of the medical staff that is required to promptly attend patients in the face of …

Assigning multi-skill configurations to multiple servers with a Scenario-Based Planning and Recombination Approach

B Bolsi, TA de Queiroz, VL de Lima, A Kramer… - Computers & Operations …, 2024 - Elsevier
This work deals with a dynamic problem arising from an outpatient healthcare facility.
Patients with varying priorities arrive throughout the day, each with specific service requests …

A solution framework based on process mining, optimization, and discrete-event simulation to improve queue performance in an emergency department

BBP Antunes, A Manresa, LSL Bastos… - … Workshops: BPM 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
Long waiting lines are a frequent problem in hospitals' Emergency Departments and can be
critical to the patient's health and experience. This study proposes a three-stage solution …

Physician scheduling for emergency departments under time-varying demand and patient return

Z Wang, R Liu, Z Sun - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emergency departments (EDs) are facing increasing overcrowding and long patient waiting
time, which is mainly caused by the time-varying demand of new and returning patients. In …

A challenge for healthcare system resilience after an earthquake: The crowdedness of a first-aid hospital by non-urgent patients

YX Lin, CH Lin, CH Lin - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
After a violent earthquake, the supply of medical services may fall short of the rising demand,
leading to overcrowding in hospitals, and, consequently, a collapse in the healthcare …