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Implementation of Specialized Pharmaceutical Care Hospital Outpatient Clinics in a Hospital Pharmacy Department [PDF]

Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2017
Objective: To describe the organization of patient care into Specialized Pharmaceutical Care Hospital Outpatient Clinics in a Hospital Pharmacy Department, to evaluate their healthcare quality, and the quality perceived by outpatients.
Luis Margusino-Framiñán, Purificación Cid-Silva, Cristina Martínez-Roca, Marta García-Queiruga, Elena Fernández-Gabriel, María Mateos-Salvador, María Teresa Rabuñal-Álvarez, María Isaura Pedreira-Vázquez, Isabel Martín-Herranz   +8 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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Time trends in patients managed simultaneously in multiple hospital outpatient specialty clinics for chronic diseases: A register-based cross-sectional study

Journal of Comorbidity, 2019
Background: The increasing prevalence of patients with multimorbidity in the general population affects the health-care system. There is a lack of knowledge of the proportion of patients attending multiple hospital outpatient specialty clinics ...
Donna Lykke Wolff, Christian Von Plessen, Frans Boch Waldorff, Thomas Lund Sørensen, Søren Bie Bogh, Katrine Hass Rubin, Christian Backer Mogensen   +6 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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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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Improving Health Care for Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore the Feasibility and Process of Aligning Scheduled Outpatient Appointments through Collaboration between Medical Specialties

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Background: Many patients with multimorbidity have appointments and parallel trajectories in several outpatient clinics across medical specialties. This organisation may disintegrate care and challenges the navigation of the healthcare system.
Cathrine Bell, Charlotte Weiling Appel, Anne Frølich, Anders Prior, Peter Vedsted   +4 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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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya, Selena Murcia Mendez, Jennifer Kellett, Sarah Wright, Marisel Ponton, Robin T. Higashi, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Ayesha Zia, Joanne Wolfe, Sandi L. Pruitt, Kira Bona   +11 more
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Inpatient Exposure, Confidence, and Knowledge in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: Evaluating General Pediatric Residents During 2025 ACGME Curriculum Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background General pediatricians often evaluate hematologic and oncologic presentations before subspecialty consultation, yet the 2025 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) pediatric requirements reduce inpatient pediatric hematology/oncology (PHO) time, raising questions about resident readiness.
Colburn Yu, Rohini Jain
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