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How HIV Clients Find Their Way Back to the ART Clinic: A Qualitative Study of Disengagement and Re-engagement with HIV Care in Malawi

Aids and Behavior, 2021
Retention in antiretroviral therapy (ART) services is critical to achieving positive health outcomes for individuals living with HIV, but accumulating evidence indicates that individuals are likely to miss ART appointments over time.
Stephanie Chamberlin, M. Mphande, K. Phiri, Pericles Kalande, K. Dovel   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Appointment games with unobservable and observable schedules

Annals of Operations Research, 2021
Appointment scheduling assigns start times in a session or consultation block to a set of tasks that share a common resource. For a generic repeated appointment scheduling problem, we study the trade-off between waiting for an appointment and waiting at the appointed time.
Matthias Deceuninck, Stijn De Vuyst, Dieter Claeys, Dieter Fiems   +3 more
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Automation of health care management system through software [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
In these modern times, people prefer convenience over traditional methods. This text describes the benefits of implementing a software system in Polyclinic #5.
Vaitekunene E. L., Boyko A. A., Moiseeva E. E., Dolgova T.G., Kleshko I.I.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable waiting time reductions after introducing the STAT model for access and triage: 12-month follow up of a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Timely access is a challenge for providers of outpatient and community-based health services, as seen by the often lengthy waiting lists to manage demand.
Katherine E. Harding, David A. Snowdon, Luke Prendergast, Annie K. Lewis, Bridie Kent, Sandy F. Leggat, Nicholas F. Taylor   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

General practice recording of adverse childhood experiences: a retrospective cohort study of GP records

BJGP Open, 2020
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to negative health outcomes in adulthood. Poor engagement with services may, in part, mediate the association between adverse outcomes and ACEs.
Andrea E Williamson, Ross McQueenie, David A Ellis, Alex McConnachie, Philip Wilson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Health Care for Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore the Feasibility and Process of Aligning Scheduled Outpatient Appointments through Collaboration between Medical Specialties

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Background: Many patients with multimorbidity have appointments and parallel trajectories in several outpatient clinics across medical specialties. This organisation may disintegrate care and challenges the navigation of the healthcare system.
Cathrine Bell, Charlotte Weiling Appel, Anne Frølich, Anders Prior, Peter Vedsted   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unplanned attendances of cancer patients to an outpatient unit in a low-income country: A prospective study from Sudan

South African Journal of Oncology, 2020
Background: Studies of unplanned attendances of cancer patients to outpatient oncology units in limited-resource settings are rare. Aim: The primary aim of the study was to determine the cause of unplanned visits of cancer patients to an outpatient ...
Moawia M.A. Elhassan, Safa I.H. Taha, Maha M.A. Maatoug   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can we predict a national profile of non-attendance paediatric urology patients: a multi-institutional electronic health record study

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2014
Background Non-attendance at paediatric urology outpatient appointments results in the patient’s failure to receive medical care and wastes health care resources.Objective To determine the utility of using routinely collected electronic health record ...
Ruth A. Bush, Vijaya M. Vemulakonda, Sean T. Corbett, George J. Chiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the use of a Renal Health application by kidney transplant recipients [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2023
Objective: to evaluate the use of a renal health application by kidney transplant recipients. Method: a retrospective, observational study with a sample composed of individuals registered in the kidney transplant section of the application from July ...
Juliana Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira, Hélady Sanders-Pinheiro, Ronaldo Almeida de Freitas Filho, José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho, Marjan Askari, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Júnior   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Appointment scheduling with unscheduled arrivals and reprioritization [PDF]

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2017
Inspired by the real life problem of a radiology department in a Dutch hospital, we study the problem of scheduling appointments, taking into account unscheduled arrivals and reprioritization. The radiology department offers CT diagnostics to both scheduled and unscheduled patients.
Borgman, Nardo J., Vliegen, Ingrid M.H., Boucherie, Richard J., Hans, Erwin W.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources