Continual planning and scheduling for managing patient tests in hospital laboratories

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-154

  Marinagi, Catherine C ^a   Spyropoulos, Constantine D ^a   Papatheodorou, Christos ^b   Kokkotos, Stavros ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Dynamic Ideas LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackboard architecture; Continual planning and scheduling; Hospital laboratories; Multiagent systems; Patient tests; Uncertain temporal reasoning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORIES; HEALTH CARE; INFERENCE ENGINES; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PATIENT TESTS; UNCERTAIN TEMPORAL REASONING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PLANNING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0034308314     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(00)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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