Worldwide, chemotherapy centers that provide outpatient services face significant
challenges owing to increased demand and limited resources. Therefore, outpatient …

Nowadays and due to the pandemic of COVID‐19, nurses are working under the highest
pressure benevolently all over the world. This urgent situation can cause more fatigue for …

The high demand for radiotherapy services, combined with the limited capacity of available
resources, patient unpunctuality, and series of appointments, makes Patient Appointment …

The uncertainty in infusion durations and non-homogeneous care level needs of patients
are the critical factors that lead to difficulties in chemotherapy scheduling. We study the …

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty in
premedication and infusion durations. In this paper, we formulate a two‐stage stochastic …

Increasing number of cancer survivors besides effective medications increase the demand
for cancer care services. Therefore, managers have to investigate new ways to enhance the …

This paper studies an online scheduling problem dealing with patients' multiple requests for
chemotherapy treatments at the cancer centre of a major metropolitan hospital in Canada …

This research deals with the same-day chemotherapy outpatient scheduling problem that is
recognized as a leading strategy to pursue the objective of reducing patient waiting time …

Patient no-shows and suboptimal patient appointment length scheduling reduce clinical
efficiency and impair the clinic's quality of service. The main objective of this study is to …

New labor laws that include additional legal requirements or amendments occasionally
come into effect, and these new laws may also bring about challenges to common hospital …