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Managing Alternative Patient Appointments Using P-Graph Methodology
Zoltán Süle, János Baumgartner, Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy
57 - 64
10.3233/SHTI200074
Research Article
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 271: dHealth 2020 – Biomedical Informatics for Health and Care
Abstract

Background:

Patient appointment scheduling is one of the main challenging tasks in the healthcare administration and is constantly in the focus of theoretical researches.

Objectives:

The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability of the P-graph (Process graph) methodology to find the n-best alternative for patient’s scheduling.

Methods:

The patient appointment scheduling task was formalised as an integer linear programming problem and was considered as a process network synthesis problem. The optimal and n-best alternative solutions were determined by an efficient branch and bound algorithm implemented in a decision support system.

Results:

Experimental results show, that the P-graph methodology can be effectively applied to produce the optimal scheduling for the examinations and to find the alternatives of the best scheduling.

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