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Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes. We compared three groups of participants who read dialogues on personal schedules and wrote down the ...
Keita Umejima, Takuya Ibaraki, Takahiro Yamazaki, Kuniyoshi L. Sakai   +3 more
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Integrated scheduling of tasks and gynecologists to improve patient appointment scheduling; a case study [PDF]

Operations Research for Health Care, 2018
Like many hospital departments, the gynecology department of the Jeroen Bosch Hospital experienced difficulties with scheduling outpatient appointments at the medically preferred times. Despite the time invested in creating the schedule, the compliance of the achieved schedules with the preferences of gynecologists is low, and the number of scheduled ...
N.M. van de Vrugt, S.T. Luen-English, W.A.P. Bastiaansen, S. Kleinluchtenbeld, W.T.P. Lardinois, M.H. Pots, D.J. Schoonbergen, E.W. Hans, J.L. Hurink, R.J. Boucherie   +9 more
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Physiological and Behavioral Manifestations of Children and Teenagers with Down Syndrome During the Dental Appointment: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, 2022
Objective: To measure the heart rate (HR) and the behavior of children and teenagers with Down Syndrome (DS) during the dental appointment. Material and Methods: Two groups (n = 52), of both genders, aged 2-14 years, matched by age group were formed ...
Aryvelto Miranda Silva, Básia Rabelo Nogueira, Thalles Anthony Chaves Leal, Raimundo Rosendo Prado Júnior, Regina Ferraz Mendes   +4 more
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A model of access combining triage with initial management reduced waiting time for community outpatient services: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Medicine, 2018
Background Long waiting times are associated with public community outpatient health services. This trial aimed to determine if a new model of care based on evidence-based strategies that improved patient flow in two small pilot trials could be used to ...
Katherine E. Harding, Sandra G. Leggat, Jennifer J. Watts, Bridie Kent, Luke Prendergast, Michelle Kotis, Mary O’Reilly, Leila Karimi, Annie K. Lewis, David A. Snowdon, Nicholas F. Taylor   +10 more
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Specific timely appointments for triage to reduce wait times in a medical outpatient clinic: protocol of a pre-post study with process evaluation

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Managing demand for services is a problem in many areas of healthcare, including specialist medical outpatient clinics. Some of these clinics have long waiting lists with variation in access for referred people.
Annie K. Lewis, Nicholas F. Taylor, Patrick W. Carney, Katherine E. Harding   +3 more
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Effective Optimisation of the Patient Circuits of an Oncology Day Hospital: Mathematical Programming Models and Case Study

Mathematics, 2021
In this paper, we first use the information we have on the patients of an oncology day hospital to distribute the treatment schedules they have in each of the visits to this centre. To do this, we propose a deterministic mathematical programming model in
Adrián González-Maestro, Elena Brozos-Vázquez, Balbina Casas-Méndez, Rafael López-López, Rosa López-Rodríguez, Francisco Reyes-Santias   +5 more
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Personal Health Record Manager and Appointment Scheduler (PHARMAS)

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2022
Abstract: The adaptation of digitalization in the banking and finance industry around the world is rapidly growing. IT infrastructure is used in various fields such as smart telephony, text services, and transportation i.e., coordinating trains and aviation timetables and signals based on GPRS location.
Atharva Sadre, Akshat Bhargava, Pranav Doshi, Deepak M Shinde   +3 more
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Brazilian Portuguese of the ORAAprof instrument for Advanced Access [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to translate and cross-culturally adapt the self-reflective tool Outil Réflexif sur l’Accès Adapté (ORAAprof) into Brazilian Portuguese. Methods: methodological study conducted from August 2022 to April 2023 in five stages: translation, back-
Alexandre Ramiro Pinto, Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli, Lucia Yasuko Izumi Nichiata   +2 more
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Behind the clock: elucidating factors contributing to longer clinic appointment duration and patient wait time

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Longer wait time in ambulatory clinics can disrupt schedules and decrease satisfaction. We investigated factors associated with patient wait time (WT, check-in to examination room placement), approximate clinician time (ACT, completion of ...
Daniel Jonathan Kagedan, Stephen B. Edge, Kazuaki Takabe   +2 more
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Reducing wait time from referral to first visit for community outpatient services may contribute to better health outcomes: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Many people wait long periods for community outpatient services. However little is known about the impact of waiting from referral to first visit on patient outcomes.
Annie K. Lewis, Katherine E. Harding, David A. Snowdon, Nicholas F. Taylor   +3 more
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