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ArticleComputers & industrial engineering2023

A decision support system for scheduling a vaccination campaign during a pandemic emergency: The COVID-19 case.

Cristiano Fabbri, Pierfrancesco Ghedini, Marco Leonessi, Enrico Malaguti, Paolo Tubertini

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Article in Computers & industrial engineering, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Cristiano FabbriLocal Health Authority of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Pierfrancesco GhediniLocal Health Authority of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Marco LeonessiLocal Health Authority of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Enrico MalagutiDEI, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna, Italy.
Paolo TubertiniEnterprise Information Systems for Integrated Care and Research Data Management, IRCCS Azienda Ospadaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper considers the organization and scheduling of a vaccination campaign during a pandemic emergency. We describe the decision process and introduce an optimization model, which showed a powerful multi-scenario tool for scheduling a campaign in detail within a dynamic and uncertain context. The solution of the model gave the decision maker the possibility to test different settings and have a configurable solution within few seconds, compared with the man-days of effort that would have required a manual schedule. Analysis of a real case study on COVID-19 vaccination campaign in northern Italy showed that the use of such optimized solution allowed to cover the target population within a much shorter time interval, compared to a manual approach.

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COVID-19HealthcareMathematical modelSchedulingVaccination campaign

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PMID36747588
PMCPMC9892253

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