A knowledge-based scheduling system for Emergency Departments

Şafak Kiriş, Nihat Yüzügüllü, Nurdan Ergün, A. Alper Çevik

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)890-900
Number of pages11
JournalKnowledge-Based Systems
Volume23
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes

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

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