Abstract
A knowledge-based reactive scheduling system is proposed to answer the requirements of Emergency Departments (EDs). The algorithm includes detailed patient priority, arrival time, flow time and doctor load. The main aim is to determine the patients who have higher priorities initially, and then minimize their waiting times. To achieve this aim, physicians and the other related workers can use an interactive system. In this study, we evaluated the existing system by comparing the proposed system. Also, reactive scheduling cases were evaluated for some items such as decreasing the number of doctors, changing durations and entering of an urgent patient to the system. All experiments were performed with proposed algorithm and right shift rescheduling approach.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 890-900 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Knowledge-Based Systems |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Emergency Department
- Health care system
- Knowledge-based system
- Patient priorities
- Reactive scheduling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Software
- Information Systems and Management
- Artificial Intelligence