Dynamic capacity allocation in a radiology service considering different types of patients, individual no-show probabilities, and overbooking

• Hauptverfasser: Rodolfo Benedito Zattar da Silva (Verfasst von), Flávio Sanson Fogliatto (Verfasst von), André Krindges (Verfasst von), Moiseis dos Santos Cecconello (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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Abstract Background We propose a mathematical model formulated as a finite-horizon Markov Decision Process (MDP) to allocate capacity in a radiology department that serves different types of patients. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt at considering radiology resources with dif...