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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
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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
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Fast evaluation of appointment schedules for outpatients in health care [PDF]

, 2011
We consider the problem of evaluating an appointment schedule for outpatients in a hospital. Given a fixed-length session during which a physician sees K patients, each patient has to be given an appointment time during this session in advance.
B. Denton, C. Alexopoulos, C.J. Ho, D. Lindley, G.C. Kaandorp, J. Charnetski, J. Sola-Vera, K. Muthuraman, L. Liu, L.V. Green, M. Babes, M.E. Zonderland, N.T.J. Bailey, N.T.J. Bailey, P. Harper, P.P. Wang, R. Hassin, S. Chakraborty, T. Cayirli, T.N.O. Lehmann, T.R. Rohleder, W.R. Reinus   +21 more
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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
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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
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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
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Strategies for dynamic appointment making by container terminals [PDF]

, 2012
We consider a container terminal that has to make appointments with barges dynamically, in real-time, and partly automatic. The challenge for the terminal is to make appointments with only limited knowledge about future arriving barges, and in the view ...
Douma, Albert, Mes, Martijn
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Mature Adults at the GP: Length of Visit and Patient Satisfaction—Associations with Patient, Doctor, and Facility Characteristics

Medicina, 2022
Background and objectives: The consultation time for more mature adults is often perceived as longer, increasing with the patient’s age and boosting their satisfaction with the visit.
Marta Rzadkiewicz, Gorill Haugan, Dorota Włodarczyk   +2 more
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Resource Allocation and Outpatient Appointment Scheduling Using Simulation Optimization [PDF]

Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2017
This paper studies the real-life problems of outpatient clinics having the multiple objectives of minimizing resource overtime, patient waiting time, and waiting area congestion. In the clinic, there are several patient classes, each of which follows different treatment procedure flow paths through a multiphase and multiserver queuing system with ...
Carrie Ka Yuk Lin, Teresa Wai Ching Ling, Wing Kwan Yeung   +2 more
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Technology and Access to Healthcare with Different Scheduling Systems: A Scoping Review [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research
Objectives Online consultation scheduling is increasingly common in health services across various countries. This paper reviews articles published in the past five years and reflects on the risks and benefits of this practice, linking it to a recent ...
Lucas Manarte
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