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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Unnecessary delays in patient discharge from hospital outpatient clinics have direct consequences for timely access of new patients and the length of outpatient waiting times.
Edwin Kruys, Chiung-Jung (Jo) WU
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Missed hospital appointments pose a major challenge for healthcare systems. There is a lack of information about drivers of missed hospital appointments in non-Western countries and extent of variability between different types of clinics. The
Tjeerd Van Staa +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Unnecessary referrals in Danish hospitals may be contributing to inefficient use of health services already stretched and under pressure and may lead to delayed treatment for patients.
Mariam Safi +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundThe first 2 years of life are a particularly sensitive period for the parent–child relationship as well as a healthy, age-appropriate child development.
Sophie Blum +9 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background At many outpatient departments for psychiatry worldwide, standardized monitoring of the safety of prescribed psychotropic drugs is not routinely performed in daily clinical practice.
Mirjam Simoons +9 more
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A prescription survey in a hospital hypertension outpatient clinic [PDF]
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1997 Aims The objective of this study was to investigate drug utilization in the management of hypertension in Hong Kong. Methods We conducted a prescription survey to examine the use of antihypertensive drugs in a hypertension clinic in a regional hospital and the resulting expenditure incurred. The use of concurrent medications such as antidiabetic drugs
P K, Lee +6 more
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The association of types of training and practice settings with doctors’ empathy and patient enablement among patients with chronic illness in Hong Kong [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) is becoming a global health problem and there is an increasing need for primary care doctors to look after these patients although whether family doctors are adequately trained and prepared is ...
Fung, Colman S.C. +7 more
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Prevalence of insomnia symptoms and their associated factors in patients treated in outpatient clinics of four general hospitals in Guangzhou, China [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Data on the prevalence of insomnia symptoms in medical outpatient clinics in China are lacking. This study examined the prevalence of insomnia symptoms and their socio-demographic correlates in patients treated at medical outpatient clinics ...
Dai, Qing +9 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 +7 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 +6 more
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