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Interventions to improve patient appointments in an ambulatory care facility

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1994
Failed patient appointments in ambulatory care may result in decreased revenues. The purpose of this study was to determine if patient reminders would affect the "no-show" rate of a medical ambulatory care setting. Patients of 10 physicians participated in a 6-week study.
M E, Koren, J C, Bartel, J, Corliss
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Programming Ambulatory Care Facilities and Manpower

Medical Care, 1974
The expanded interest in ambulatory care evaluation and planning data has not included studies of the utilization of physical facilities by patients and professionals. The absence of such information has resulted in a delay of ambulatory facility planning and operation, as well as architectural programs that develop from inadequate and inappropriate ...
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Physician and patient assessment of ambulatory care in a university facility

Journal of Community Health, 1978
Physicians are a largely untapped resource for evaluating medical care delivery in an ambulatory care facility. This study includes the attitudes of physicians in assessing care at the Northwestern University Medical School Clinics (NUMSC). A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to all clinic chiefs, attending physicians, and resident physicians ...
S R, Orden, P, Collette, J, Souchek, L, Masover, J, Stamler   +4 more
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Top Technology Issues for Ambulatory Care Facilities This Year and Beyond

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2009
ECRI Institute medical technology experts (i.e., biomedical engineers, patient safety experts, physicians, and research scientists) compiled a list of important technology-related issues that executives and clinical leaders at ambulatory care facilities should pay close attention to this year.
Diane C, Robertson, Jeffrey C, Lerner
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Continuous Quality Improvement of Pap Smears in an Ambulatory Care Facility

QRB - Quality Review Bulletin, 1992
This article describes how the H. Claude Hudson Comprehensive Health Center (Los Angeles) implemented a continuous quality improvement program to reduce the unacceptably high rate of nonrepresentative Papanicolaou (Pap) smears (those lacking endocervical component).
J A, Pachciarz, M I, Abbott, B, Gorman, C E, Henneman, M, Kuhl   +4 more
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Locating ambulatory medical care facilities for the elderly.

Health services research, 1986
The importance of effective planning strategies for the location of primary medical services for the independently living elderly increases as their absolute number and proportion in the general population increases. Current spatial planning strategies focus on providing services in centralized locations or decentralized at the level of the somewhat ...
E K, Cromley, G W, Shannon
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Planning Ahead: Practical Hints for Designing Ambulatory Care Facilities

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1999
This article discusses a variety of topics that need to be addressed during the design of an ambulatory care facility, particularly those areas that need to be discussed at the beginning of the project. Topics include life safety/code issues involving building classification, employee safety, and accessibility; regulatory agencies; design issues ...
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A new method for planning an ambulatory care facility

2010
The ambulatory care facility is a new phenomenon in the British Columbia health care delivery system. Therefore, not only is its planner faced with the uncertainty of predicting future need, but also the perplexity of not having the very basis for his predictions: past utilization data from existing facilities.
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Capital financing for ambulatory care facilities

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1984
V E, Schimmel, J M, Annett
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Functional Components of the Ambulatory Care Facility

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1978
B P, Arneill, P H, Nuelsen
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