Title
Implementation strategies of a contract-based MRI examination reservation process for stroke patients.
Abstract
•Contract-based reservation of MRI examination for stroke patients is considered.•Control strategies include RTS (regular time slots) assignment and RTS reservation.•RTS reservation improves the unused time slots and waiting times of RTS assignment.•RTS reservation avoids unlucky patients waiting for lengthy regular reservation.•Sensitivity wrt RTS delay, unused time slot cost and arrival rate is investigated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ejor.2013.05.043
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Healthcare,Hospital,Capacity allocation,Capacity reservation,Implementation strategies
Reservation,Patient waiting,FIFO (computing and electronics),Queue,Stroke,FIFO and LIFO accounting,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
231
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Na Geng17513.17
Xiaolan Xie21165113.61
Z. B. Jiang324236.08