2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reduction of the waiting time of outpatients in hospitals
| Project/Area Number |
26350426
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social systems engineering/Safety system
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 待ち時間 / 病院 / シミュレーション / 見える化 / 近似最適化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has focused on hospitals accepting both scheduled patients and walk-ins, and proposed several techniques to reduce the waiting time in hospitals. To estimate the expected waiting time of an appointment schedule, clearing functions are utilized and a graphical representation of waiting times is realized. To further reduce the waiting time, a scheduled time is assigned to each walk-in at the time of arrival. To select preferable appointment schedules from a set of candidate appointment schedules effectively, the number of simulation runs are controlled by the estimated performance of each candidate. Under the condition that some patients visit one or more examination rooms and then request the second round of consultation, the consultation sequence is generated by using a simple rule. To alleviate the stress of waiting, it is assumed in some studies that the consultation sequence is displayed.
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| Free Research Field |
経営工学
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