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Appointment Planning in Outpatient Clinics and Diagnostic Facilities provides a concise overview of the medical and mathematical aspects of appointment planning in healthcare. This SpringerBrief specifically focuses on outpatient clinics and diagnostic facilities. It begins by introducing the topic from a medical perspective, discussing the kinds of clinics and facilities that are out there, while exploring the appointment systems they use and the problems they face. Next, the mathematical aspects of appointment planning are examined, including Markov decision modelling, queueing theory, etc. Subsequently the book addresses implementation issues that may arise, whether they be technical, medical or cultural. Finally Appointment Planning in Outpatient Clinics and Diagnostic Facilities provides an outlook on the appointment systems of the future and what they will require as a consequence of current and future developments in the medical sector.

Medical offices --- Medical appointments and schedules. --- Management. --- Appointments and schedules (Medicine) --- Schedules, Medical --- Hospitals --- Medicine --- Scheduling --- Administration --- Practice --- Health care management. --- Operations research. --- Health Care Management. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Medical care --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Management --- Health services administration. --- Decision making. --- Practice of medicine. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Decision making