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Integrated physician and clinic scheduling in ambulatory polyclinics

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  • Mohammad Tohidi
  • Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani
  • Ivan Contreras

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This paper presents an integrated physician and clinic scheduling problem arising in ambulatory cancer treatment polyclinics, where patients may be assessed by multiple physicians from different clinics in a single visit. The problem focuses on assigning clinic sessions and their associated physicians to shifts in a finite planning horizon. The complexity of this problem stems from the fact that several interdisciplinary clinics need to be clustered together, sharing limited resources. The problem is formulated as a multi-objective optimisation problem. Given the inherent complexity for optimally solving this problem with a standard optimisation software, we develop a hybrid algorithm based on iterated local search and variable neighbourhood descent methods to obtain high quality solutions. Computational results using a set of instances inspired from a case study in a hospital in Canada along with some managerial insights are reported and analysed.

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  • Mohammad Tohidi & Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani & Ivan Contreras, 2019. "Integrated physician and clinic scheduling in ambulatory polyclinics," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(2), pages 177-191, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:70:y:2019:i:2:p:177-191
    DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2017.1421853
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    1. Tohidi, Mohammad & Kazemi Zanjani, Masoumeh & Contreras, Ivan, 2021. "A physician planning framework for polyclinics under uncertainty," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).

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