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Virtual outreach: economic evaluation of joint teleconsultations for patients referred by their general practitioner for a specialist opinion [PDF]

, 2003
Objectives To test the hypotheses that, compared with conventional outpatient consultations, joint teleconsultation (virtual outreach) would incur no increased costs to the NHS, reduce costs to patients, and reduce absences from work by patients and ...
Wainwright, P, Currell, R, Thompson, S G, Wallace, P, Barber, J A, Lewis, L, Jacklin, P B, Jacklin, PB, Virtual Outreach Project Grp, Thompson, SG, Virtual Outreach Project Group, Roberts, JA, Roberts, J A, Haines, A, Harrison, R, Parker, S, Barber, JA   +16 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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Evaluation of outreach clinics held by specialists in general practice in England

, 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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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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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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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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Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
wiley   +1 more source

Experience With Performing Rheocarna Therapy via the Single‐Needle Method for Treatment of Chronic Limb‐Threatening Ischemia

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This study investigated the safety and efficacy of single‐needle Rheocarna therapy for chronic limb‐threatening ischemia (CLTI) with wounds. Methods Six patients with CLTI involving ulcers unresponsive to revascularization underwent single‐needle Rheocarna treatment.
Yasutaka Yamauchi, Rie Tanaka, Reona Kawahira, Shingo Nabeta, Kouhei Naoi, Kazuhito Kitajima, Akira Wada, Tomonari Takagi, Norihiko Ohura, Akira Miyamoto   +9 more
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