ArticleHealth systems (Basingstoke, England)2021
Improving chemotherapy infusion operations through the simulation of scheduling heuristics: a case study.
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- Clustering and Stochastic Simulation Optimization for Outpatient Chemotherapy Appointment Planning and Scheduling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Presented a Framework of Computational Modeling to Identify the Patient Admission Scheduling Problem in the Healthcare System.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
- Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach.Health care management science · 2021Article
- Improving chemotherapy infusion operations through the simulation of scheduling heuristics: a case study.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Over the last decade, chemotherapy treatments have dramatically shifted to outpatient services such that nearly 90% of all infusions are now administered outpatient. This shift has challenged oncology clinics to make chemotherapy treatment as widely available as possible while attempting to treat all patients within a fixed period of time. Historical data from a Veterans Affairs chemotherapy clinic in the United States and staff input informed a discrete event simulation model of the clinic. The case study examines the impact of altering the current schedule, where all patients arrive at 8:00 AM, to a schedule that assigns patients to two or three different appointment times based on the expected length of their chemotherapy infusion. The results identify multiple scheduling policies that could be easily implemented with the best solutions reducing both average patient waiting time and average nurse overtime requirements.
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