Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours
Location science is used to determine the optimal geographical placement of primary care resources with operations research models. In determining the optimal placement, we account for the objectives of both patients and physicians. These objectives and the methods used to address them differ betwee...
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| description | Location science is used to determine the optimal geographical placement of primary care resources with operations research models. In determining the optimal placement, we account for the objectives of both patients and physicians. These objectives and the methods used to address them differ between daytime and after-hours settings. These time settings are treated separately since primary care services are typically limited during after-hours operations. Three solution approaches are considered to address both time settings: independent, sequential, and simultaneous. The independent approach is based on the p-Median problem, and the other two approaches use modified forms of the p-Median. Three case studies are examined by applying these models to census data from Nova Scotia. Solving the daytime and after-hours problem simultaneously consistently yields the best results while considering facility-sharing constraints. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57fc7b162dc94b1b8c2eab50ea989ecf2023-11-18T00:23:09ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-05-011310627310.3390/app13106273Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after HoursJohn Charles Campbell0Majid Taghavi1Peter T. VanBerkel2Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaSobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, CanadaIndustrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaLocation science is used to determine the optimal geographical placement of primary care resources with operations research models. In determining the optimal placement, we account for the objectives of both patients and physicians. These objectives and the methods used to address them differ between daytime and after-hours settings. These time settings are treated separately since primary care services are typically limited during after-hours operations. Three solution approaches are considered to address both time settings: independent, sequential, and simultaneous. The independent approach is based on the p-Median problem, and the other two approaches use modified forms of the p-Median. Three case studies are examined by applying these models to census data from Nova Scotia. Solving the daytime and after-hours problem simultaneously consistently yields the best results while considering facility-sharing constraints.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/10/6273location planningoperations researchgeospatial analysispatient accessprimary care accessafter-hours services |
| spellingShingle | John Charles Campbell Majid Taghavi Peter T. VanBerkel Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours Applied Sciences location planning operations research geospatial analysis patient access primary care access after-hours services |
| title | Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours |
| title_full | Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours |
| title_fullStr | Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours |
| title_full_unstemmed | Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours |
| title_short | Day and Night: Locating the General Practitioner’s Panel after Hours |
| title_sort | day and night locating the general practitioner s panel after hours |
| topic | location planning operations research geospatial analysis patient access primary care access after-hours services |
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