Scheduling rules to achieve lead-time targets in outpatient appointment systems

This paper considers how to schedule appointments for outpatients, for a clinic that is subject to appointment lead-time targets for both new and returning patients. We develop heuristic rules, which are the exact and relaxed appointment scheduling rules, to schedule each new patient appointment (on...

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Main Authors: Sivakumar, Appa Iyer, Nguyen, Thu Ba Thi, Graves, Stephen C
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107454
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5966-6032