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Challenges to ensuring valid and useful waiting time monitoring – a qualitative study in Swedish specialist care

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Access to health care is an essential health policy issue. In several countries, waiting time guarantees mandate set time limits for assessment and treatment.
David Ebbevi, Henna Hasson, Knut Lönnroth, Hanna Augustsson   +3 more
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Compression pre-stapler firing and post-ignition wait during sleeve gastrectomy: a prospective randomized trial

São Paulo Medical Journal, 2023
BACKGROUND: Insufficient research exists on the stapling technique in and duration of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the clinical outcomes using a 30-second precompression and post-firing waiting time ...
Medeni Sermet
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Development and evaluation of an “emergency access button” in Danish out-of-hours primary care: a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Out-of-hours (OOH) health care for acute medical problems is often challenged by long waiting time for callers in need of advice and triage.
J. F. Ebert, L. Huibers, F. K. Lippert, B. Christensen, M. B. Christensen   +4 more
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Coordination Optimization of the First and Last Trains' Departure Time on Urban Rail Transit Network

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Coordinating the departure times of different line directions' of first and the last trains contributes to passengers' transferring. In this paper, a coordination optimization model (i.e., M1) referring to the first train's departure time is constructed ...
Wenliang Zhou, Lianbo Deng, Meiquan Xie, Xia Yang   +3 more
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Electric vehicle type selection for single-line transit fleet replacement

Journal of Public Transportation, 2023
Fleet replacement is an important decision-making activity in public transit planning and operations. Recently, with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, diesel buses are being replaced with new electric buses ...
Chunyan Tang, Ailing Zhao, Tao Liu, Jiyu Zhang   +3 more
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Audit on Assessing the Effectiveness of Patient Advice Line at Outpatient Rheumatology Clinic at Tertiary Care Centre in Sri Lanka

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology
Background: Nurse-led telephone advice line services have been endorsed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to provide patients and their carers with expert advice.
Suren William De Silva
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E-Queue Mobile Application

SHS Web of Conferences, 2017
Waiting in line is a common experience in daily life, whether for a table at a popular restaurant or for the service at a bank. This experience is not always pleasant for most of people because they always have to wait for a long time to be serviced. The
Khong Yeen Lai, Ooi Bee Chen, Tan Kok Eng, Binti Ibrahim Salizatul Aizah, Tee Peck Ling   +4 more
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Factors of Perceived Waiting Time and Implications on Passengers’ Satisfaction with Waiting Time

Promet (Zagreb), 2016
In order to explore the influence factors on perceived waiting time, a multiple linear regression model has been used to quantitatively describe the relationship between perceived waiting time and various factors.
Shumin Feng, Haiyue Wu, Xianglong Sun, Zhenning Li   +3 more
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Data-Driven Simulation Modeling of the Checkout Process in Supermarkets: Insights for Decision Support in Retail Operations

IEEE Access, 2020
We build a realistic agent-based model for simulating customer decisions of picking a checkout line at a supermarket that is calibrated to actual point of sale (POS) data from a major European retail chain.
Tomasz Antczak, Rafal Weron, Jacek Zabawa   +2 more
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Waiting line, the border and modernity

Estudios Fronterizos, 2004
The philosophic discussion is the departure point related to Nietzsche and Heiddeger, about the coming of the nihilism to introduce us in the subjects of the border in the modern and postmodern world.
José Luis Tejeda González
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