Adaptive resource allocation for efficient patient scheduling

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-80

  Vermeulen, Ivan B ^a   Bohte, Sander M ^a   Elkhuizen, Sylvia G ^b   Lameris, Han ^b   Bakker, Piet J M ^b   Poutré, Han La ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Diagnostic resource; Dynamic optimization; Patient scheduling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACHES; ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES; ADAPTIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; AMSTERDAM; AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATIONS; CAPACITY PLANNING; CASE ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC RESOURCE; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC TASKS; EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; PARAMETER VALUES; PATIENT SCHEDULING; RESOURCE CAPACITIES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TIME FRAMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SCHEDULING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WORK CAPACITY;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NETHERLANDS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WORKLOAD;

EID: 64549139389     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

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