Outpatient appointment scheduling given individual day-dependent no-show predictions

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 245-257

  Samorani, Michele ^a   Laganga, Linda R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Mental Health Center of Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

Appointment scheduling; Business analytics; Data mining; OR in health services

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; BUSINESS ANALYTICS; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; NEAR-OPTIMAL; OR IN HEALTH SERVICES; OUTPATIENT CLINIC; WAITING-TIME;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84906951586     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.06.034     Document Type: Article

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