patient scheduling

A prediction-based approach for online dynamic radiotherapy scheduling

  • Tu-San Pham
  • Antoine Legrain
  • Patrick De Causmaecker
  • Louis-Martin Rousseau
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences Tags , , ,

    Patient scheduling is a difficult task as it involves dealing with stochastic factors such as an unknown arrival flow of patients. Scheduling radiotherapy treatments for cancer patients faces a similar problem. Curative patients need to start their treatment within the recommended deadlines, i.e., 14 or 28 days after their admission while reserving treatment capacity for … Read more

    Data-Driven Patient Scheduling in Emergency Departments: A Hybrid Robust-Stochastic Approach

  • Shuangchi He
  • Melvyn Sim
  • Meilin Zhang
    • Categories Robust Optimization Tags , , , , ,

    Emergency care necessitates adequate and timely treatment, which has unfortunately been compromised by crowding in many emergency departments (EDs). To address this issue, we study patient scheduling in EDs so that mandatory targets imposed on each patient’s door-to-provider time and length of stay can be collectively met with the largest probability. Exploiting patient flow data … Read more