Multi-Objective Simulation-Based Optimization for Effective Management of the Outpatient Chemotherapy Process

<p dir="ltr">Outpatient chemotherapy departments' operational harmony depends on the proper strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. The integrated consideration of capacity dimensioning, resources planning, scheduling policy, appointment planning, scheduling, and resources-to-patients assignment can improve the outpatient chemotherapy process's (OCP) overall performance due to interdependencies. However, developing a comprehensive and stochastic OCP decision support system is complex. Thus, the planning, scheduling, and assignment problems are rarely addressed together. Therefrom, a multi-objective simulation-based optimization approach is proposed in this paper to handle the various OCP challenges. The proposed approach showed superior performance compared to a baseline using real data from an outpatient chemotherapy center.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.632" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.632</a></p>