Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration [0.03%]
基于固定模板的在线调度：以门诊化疗药物给药为例
Alireza F Hesaraki,Nico P Dellaert,Ton de Kok
Alireza F Hesaraki
In this paper, we use a fixed template of slots for the online scheduling of appointments. The template is a link between planning the service capacity at a tactical level and online scheduling at an operational level. We develop a detailed...
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease [0.03%]
心血管病防治体系中的监测政策分析
Daniel F Otero-Leon,Mariel S Lavieri,Brian T Denton et al.
Daniel F Otero-Leon et al.
Preventing chronic diseases is an essential aspect of medical care. To prevent chronic diseases, physicians focus on monitoring their risk factors and prescribing the necessary medication. The optimal monitoring policy depends on the patien...
Tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States: metrics of pandemic progression derived from a queueing framework [0.03%]
美国新冠肺炎病例和死亡人数跟踪：基于队列框架的疫情演变指标
Randolph Hall,Andrew Moore,Mingdong Lyu
Randolph Hall
We analyze the progression of COVID-19 in the United States over a nearly one-year period beginning March 1, 2020 with a novel metric motivated by queueing models, tracking partial-average day-of-event and cumulative probability distributio...
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center [0.03%]
关于在放射科中心集成患者预约表和技士时间表的方法
Dina Bentayeb,Nadia Lahrichi,Louis-Martin Rousseau
Dina Bentayeb
Optimal patient appointment grid scheduling improves medical center performance and reduces pressure from excess demand. Appointment scheduling efficiency depends on resource management, and staff are a key resource. Personnel scheduling ta...
Supporting COVID-19 elective recovery through scalable wait list modelling: Specialty-level application to all hospitals in England [0.03%]
通过可扩展的等待名单建模支持COVID-19择期手术恢复：应用于英格兰所有医院的专科级应用研究
Richard M Wood
Richard M Wood
The recovery of elective waiting lists represents a major challenge and priority for the health services of many countries. In England's National Health Service (NHS), the waiting list has increased by 45% in the two years since the COVID-1...
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures [0.03%]
反馈控制的有效性以及COVID-19死亡率与防控成本之间的权衡关系
Akira Watanabe,Hiroyuki Matsuda
Akira Watanabe
We provided a framework of a mathematical epidemic modeling and a countermeasure against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) under no vaccines and specific medicines. The fact that even asymptomatic cases are infectious plays an import...
Nurse rostering with fatigue modelling : Incorporating a validated sleep model with biological variations in nurse rostering [0.03%]
基于生物节律的护士排班疲劳模型研究
Kjartan Kastet Klyve,Ilankaikone Senthooran,Mark Wallace
Kjartan Kastet Klyve
We use a real Nurse Rostering Problem and a validated model of human sleep to formulate the Nurse Rostering Problem with Fatigue. The fatigue modelling includes individual biologies, thus enabling personalised schedules for every nurse. We ...
Scheduling mobile dental clinics: A heuristic approach considering fairness among school districts [0.03%]
考虑学区之间公平性的移动牙科诊所调度启发式算法
Ignacio A Sepúlveda,Maichel M Aguayo,Rodrigo De la Fuente et al.
Ignacio A Sepúlveda et al.
Mobile dental clinics (MDCs) are suitable solutions for servicing people living in rural and urban areas that require dental healthcare. MDCs can provide dental care to the most vulnerable high-school students. However, scheduling MDCs to v...
Dianne Villicaña-Cervantes,Omar J Ibarra-Rojas
Dianne Villicaña-Cervantes
In this study, we address the problem of finding the best locations for mobile labs offering COVID-19 testing. We assume that people within known demand centroids have a degree of mobility, i.e., they can travel a reasonable distance, and m...
Screening for preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Deriving optimal policies using a partially observable Markov model [0.03%]
阿尔茨海默病前期筛检：使用部分可观察马尔科夫模型得出最有效的政策
Zehra Önen Dumlu,Serpil Sayın,İbrahim Hakan Gürvit
Zehra Önen Dumlu
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is believed to be the most common type of dementia. Even though screening for AD has been discussed widely, there is no screening program implemented as part of a policy in any country. Current medical research moti...