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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 +4 more
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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 +10 more
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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 +3 more
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Appointment Scheduling with Discrete Random Durations [PDF]
Mathematics of Operations Research, 2009 We consider the problem of determining an optimal appointment schedule for a given sequence of jobs (e.g., medical procedures) on a single processor (e.g., operating room, examination facility, physician), to minimize the expected total underage and overage costs when each job has a random processing duration given by a joint discrete probability ...
Mehmet A. Begen, Maurice Queyranne
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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 +3 more
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Comparison between Outpatient Appointment Scheduling and Chemotherapy Outpatient Appointment Scheduling [PDF]
The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology, 2016 Healthcare management has received tremendous interest among researchers as it deals with human health. In this paper, two applications of scheduling on healthcare systems are studied. These two applications are outpatient appointment scheduling and chemotherapy outpatient appointment scheduling.
M Heshmat, A Eltawil
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Brazilian Portuguese of the ORAAprof instrument for Advanced Access [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de EnfermagemObjectives: 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 +2 more
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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 +5 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +2 more
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