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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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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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Impact of missed appointments for out-patient physiotherapy on cost, efficiency, and patients' recovery

, 2013
Missed appointments (MAs) constitute a challenge for clinicians and clinical administrators. This study assessed the rates of MAs and their impact on cost, efficiency, and patients' recovery.
C. Mbada, J. Nonvignon, O. Ajayi, O. Dada, Taofeek Awotidebe, O. Johnson, Ayobami Olarinde   +6 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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