A decision support system for patient scheduling in travel vaccine administration
A decision support system for patient scheduling in travel vaccine administration
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DOI：
10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.007
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Ragsdale, Cliff T.
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作者：
Abrahams, Alan S.;Ragsdale, Cliff T.
旅行疫苗的管理带来了一些业务管理挑战。多剂疫苗包的共享消耗、打开后迅速变质、高昂的浪费成本以及患者独特的疫苗接种需求之间的相互作用，形成了一个非常有趣和复杂的调度问题，可以从计算机决策支持中受益。我们比较了一种新的二进制整数规划模型和遗传算法求解技术与传统调度方法的性能。计算结果表明，在考虑患者的调度偏好和缓解调度不便的同时，DSS可以实现显著的成本节约。(C)2012爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
The administration of travel vaccines presents a number of operations management challenges. The interplay between shared consumption of multi-dose vaccine packages, rapid spoilage upon opening, the high cost of wastage, and the unique vaccination needs of the patients makes for a very interesting and complex scheduling problem that could benefit from computerized decision support. We compare the performance of a novel binary integer programming model and a genetic algorithm solution technique with conventional scheduling approaches. Computational results show that significant cost savings can be achieved with the DSS while simultaneously considering scheduling preferences of patients and mitigating scheduling inconvenience. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.