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Robust Appointment Scheduling.

, 2014
Health care providers are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs and increase quality of their services. It has long been recognized that well-designed appointment systems have the potential to improve utilization of expensive personnel and medical equipment and to reduce waiting times for patients.
Mittal, Shashi, Schulz, Andreas S., Stiller, Sebastian   +2 more
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Bridging the Gap in Neuroblastoma Care: Consensus‐Based Statements With Recommendations for Improved Patient and Caregiver Experiences

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neuroblastoma's complex, heterogeneous biology poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, often requiring caregivers to absorb complex information and participate in time‐sensitive decisions. However, caregivers often feel unprepared to evaluate options.
Vickie Buenger, Joseph Bauer, Jennifer Diamond, Maggie Fader, Shae Hansen, Jacqueline M. Kraveka, Johanna Schoen, Amber Shearer, Dena Sherwood   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consensus Standards and Recommendations for Developmental and Cognitive Surveillance, Screening, and Evaluation in Sickle Cell Disease: Executive Summary From the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers Neurocognitive Workgroup

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive difficulties are prevalent among individuals with sickle cell disease and warrant prompt identification and support. This Special Report provides an executive summary of standards and recommendations for surveillance, screening, and evaluation for development and cognition across the lifespan developed by ...
Alyssa M. Schlenz, Donna Murdaugh, Andrew M. Heitzer, Jennifer N. Longoria, Wendy Santos‐Modesitt, Arianna Martin, Judy Cavazos, Jeff Schatz, Catherine R. Hoyt, Alison King, Eboni I. Lance, Steven Hardy, Marsha Treadwell   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of scheduled visits on delirium intensity in elderly patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit: a clinical trial study

حیات, 2019
Background & Aim: Active participation of families can be an influencing factor on delirium in patients hospitalized in the ICU. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of scheduled visits on delirium intensity in elderly patients ...
Ali Hasanshahian, Ali Ravari, Tayebeh Mirzaei   +2 more
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Incidence and root causes of delays in emergency orthopaedic procedures: a single-centre experience of 36,017 consecutive cases over seven years

Patient Safety in Surgery, 2018
Background Emergency surgery is unplanned by definition and patients are scheduled for surgery with minimal preparation. Some patients who have sustained emergency orthopaedic trauma or other conditions must be operated on immediately or within a few ...
Ulla Caesar, Jon Karlsson, Elisabeth Hansson   +2 more
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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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Determining Parental Factors for Clinical Trial Attrition in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Despite high enrollment rates on Children's Oncology Group (COG) protocols, attrition after initial consent is challenging, introducing bias and prolonging trial completion. While adult oncology literature has identified predictors of withdrawal, little is known about caregiver decision‐making for child participation in ...
Kimberly L. Stathas, Jakob Q. Weiss, Kellee N. Parker, Cathy Lee‐Miller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appointment Scheduling at Outpatient Clinics Using Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach

IEEE Access, 2020
Clinics with a large volume of patients are often burdened with limited resources such as nurses and providers. Also, an efficient health system seeks short wait times for the patients to see the provider (indirect wait time) and within the clinic ...
Samira Fazel Anvaryazdi, Saravanan Venkatachalam, Ratna Babu Chinnam   +2 more
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Clocks in Dreams: Analysis of a Long Dream Series

Clocks & Sleep, 2021
Many dream content analytic studies focus on dream characters, animals, social interactions and so on, but they rarely analyze the frequency of everyday objects in dreams.
Michael Schredl
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Administering Blinatumomab via Continuous Intravenous Infusion in Pediatric Patients—A Single‐Institution Retrospective Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blinatumomab, a CD19xCD3 bispecific T‐cell engager, has become standard therapy for children with de novo B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). This retrospective review describes the experience of blinatumomab administration in pediatric patients.
Julia M. Hurley, Ryleigh Krueger, Kellie Joyce, James Stanley, Mary Waskerwitz‐Freyer, Marielle Klunder, David J. Hoogstra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source