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Predictors of failed attendances in a multi-specialty outpatient centre using electronic databases. [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Failure to keep outpatient medical appointments results in inefficiencies and costs. The objective of this study is to show the factors in an existing electronic database that affect failed appointments and to develop a predictive probability
Vernon J Lee, Chen Mark I, Arul Earnest, Bala Krishnan, Earnest Arul, Mark I Chen, Chen, Mark I, Krishnan, Bala, Lee Vernon J, Krishnan Bala, Lee, Vernon J, Earnest, Arul, Lee V.J., Chen M.I., Earnest A., Krishnan B.   +15 more
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Quality of Diabetes Care at Outpatient Clinic, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital

Oman Medical Journal, 2015
Objective: To assess the clinical care of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) patients at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), a countrywide tertiary referral center in Muscat, Oman.
Sawsan Al-Sinani, Ali Al-Mamari, Nicolas Woodhouse, Omaiyma Al-Shafie, Fatima Amar, Mohammed Al-Shafaee, Mohammed Hassan, Riad Bayoumi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of outreach clinics held by specialists in general practice in England [PDF]

, 2000
Objectives: To measure the processes of care, health benefits and costs of outreach clinics held by hospital specialists in primary care settings.Design: The study was designed as a case-referent (comparative) study in which the features of 19 outreach ...
Bowling, A., Abery, A., Dickinson, E, M. Bond, Dickinson, E., Abery, A, Bond, Matthew, Abery, Alison, McClay, M, McClay, Marie, McClay, M., Bowling, Ann, Dickinson, Edward, Bond, M., Bond, M, Bowling, A   +15 more
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Patients' Views on how to Run Hospital Outpatient Clinics [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1991
To investigate patients' views and expectations when attending outpatient clinics a questionnaire-based study was performed. The questionnaires asked about appointment systems, continuity of care, staff appearance, chaperons and medical students. Patients wanted fixed appointment times, to see the same doctor on successive visits, for the staff to be ...
F, Bishop, F J, Matthews, C S, Probert, J, Billett, T, Battcock, S D, Frisby, J F, Mayberry   +6 more
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Patient Flow Analysis in General Hospitals: How Clinical Disciplines Affect Outpatient Wait Times [PDF]

Hospital Practices and Research, 2019
Background: Overcrowding is an important problem for outpatient services in healthcare facilities. Patient flow analysis (PFA) is a useful method for identifying inefficiencies in and facilitating patient flow. Objective: PFA was used to estimate patient
Afsoon Aeenparast, Faranak Farzadi, Farzaneh Maftoon, Hossien Yahyazadeh   +3 more
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The impact of reduced operating room capacity on the time delay of urgent surgical care for neurosurgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic raised major challenges to the management of patient flows and medical staff resource allocation. To prevent the collapse of medical facilities, elective diagnostic and surgical procedures were drastically reduced ...
Daniel Schöni, Marc-Eric Halatsch, Alex Alfieri   +2 more
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An intelligent real-time scheduler for out-patient clinics: A multi-agent system model

Health Informatics Journal, 2020
Scheduling of resources and patients are crucial in outpatient clinics, particularly when the patient demand is high and patient arrivals are random.
Jyoti R Munavalli, Shyam Vasudeva Rao, Aravind Srinivasan, GG van Merode   +3 more
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Clinical audit of COPD in outpatient respiratory clinics in Spain: the EPOCONSUL study [PDF]

, 2017
Myriam Calle Rubio,1–3 Bernardino Alcázar Navarrete,4 Joan B Soriano,5 Juan J Soler-Cataluña,6 José Miguel Rodríguez González-Moro,7 Manuel E Fuentes Ferrer,2,3,8 José Luis López-Campos9 On behalf ...
Calle Rubio M, Alcazar-Navarrete B, Rodriguez González-Moro JM, Lopez-Campos JL, Soriano JB, Soler-Cataluña JJ, Fuentes Ferrer ME, Fuentes Ferrer, Manuel E, Alcazar-Navarrete, Bernardino, Soriano, Joan B, Rodriguez-Gonzalez-Moro, Jose Miguel, Lopez-Campos, Jose Luis, Soler-Cataluña, Juan J, Fuentes-Ferrer, Manuel E, Calle Rubio, Myriam, Alcázar Navarrete, Bernardino, Calle-Rubio, Myriam, Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel   +17 more
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of resistant hypertension among Chinese hypertensive patients in primary care setting

BMC Primary Care
Introduction Hypertension (HT) is a major public health problem globally, and it is the commonest chronic disease with a prevalence of 27% among people aged 15 years or above in Hong Kong.
Kilpatrick Kiupak Chan, Lapkin Chiang, Clarence Chuenming Choi, Yimchu Li, Catherine Xiarui Chen   +4 more
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Evaluating Different Strategies on the Blood Collection Counter Settings to Improve Patient Waiting Time in Outpatient Units

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022
Long patient waiting time is one of the major problems in the healthcare system and it would decrease patient satisfaction. Previous studies usually investigated how to improve the treatment flow in order to reduce patient waiting time or length of stay.
Chih-Hao Chen MS, Yao-Te Tsai PhD, Chun-An Chou PhD, Shao-Jen Weng PhD, Wen-Chin Lee MD, PhD, Li-Wei Hsiao MD, Natan Derek PhD, Chang-Pu Ko MS   +7 more
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