Ayten Turkcan

Chemotherapy operations planning and scheduling

  • Mark Lawley
  • Ayten Turkcan
  • Bo Zeng
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Scheduling Tags , , ,

    Chemotherapy operations planning and scheduling in oncology clinics is a complex problem due to several factors such as the cyclic nature of chemotherapy treatment plans, the high variability in resource requirements (treatment time, nurse time, pharmacy time) and the multiple clinic resources involved. Treatment plans are made by oncologists for each patient according to existing … Read more

    Clinic Scheduling Models with Overbooking for Patients with Heterogeneous No-show Probabilities

  • Mark Lawley
  • Ayten Turkcan
  • Bo Zeng
  • Ji Lin
    • Categories Production and Logistics, Scheduling Tags , , ,

    Clinical overbooking is intended to reduce the negative impact of patient no-shows on clinic operations and performance. In this paper, we study the clinical scheduling problem with overbooking for heterogeneous patients, i.e. patients who have different no-show probabilities. We consider the objective of maximizing expected profit, which includes revenue from patients and costs associated with … Read more