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Shortest Path with Alternatives for Uniform Arrival Times: Algorithms and Experiments [PDF]
The Shortest Path with Alternatives (SPA) policy differs from classical shortest path routing in the following way: instead of providing an exact list of means of transportation to follow, this policy gives such a list for each stop, and the traveler is ...
Laumanns, Marco, Nonner, Tim
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Addition of long-distance heart procurement promotes changes in heart transplant waiting list status
Objective: Evaluate the addition of long-distance heart procurement on a heart transplant program and the status of heart transplant recipients waiting list.
Fernando Antibas Atik +6 more
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Waiting list prioritization guidelines being followed in Australia? [PDF]
© The Author(s) 2014. Objective. When waiting lists are used to ration treatments for nonemergency procedures, a prioritization rule is required to ensure that urgent patients are admitted first.
Johar, M
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Experience Since MELD Implementation: How Does the New System Deliver?
Because of increasing waiting-list mortality, the MELD (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) allocation system was implemented within most countries of the Eurotransplant area on December 16, 2006.
Markus Quante +3 more
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Background: The waiting list is a list of selected patients in the surgical queue. If demand exceeds capacity, the waiting list grows rapidly, which may lead to unacceptable waiting for patients, especially those in need of acute medical care.
Bahare Rahmani Manshadi +2 more
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Simulating waiting list management [PDF]
Patients' experiences of waiting for treatment have changed dramatically in recent years in the United Kingdom's National Health Service. There has been a substantial reduction in the mean wait but the characteristics of the distributions have also changed significantly, implying a change in priorities and waiting list management. Simulations are often
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The recent editorial, “Waiting Lists? What Waiting Lists? Not Nursing’s Problem” (Pringle 2005), challenges nurses to “step up to the plate” with a pithy and solid analysis of the waiting list issue from a nursing perspective and with recommendations for ameliorating it.
Joann M, Trypuc, Alan R, Hudson
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We develop a positive model of waiting lists for public hospitals when physicians are able to divert patients from the public to the private sector. Public treatment is free but rationed, i.e., only cases meeting some medical criteria are admitted. Private treatment has no waiting time but entails payment of a fee.
Pedro Pita Barros, Pau Olivella
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Egyptian protocol for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Background The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may negatively impact the care of liver transplant candidates and recipients. Main body of the abstract Accordingly, each country must have its national guidelines based on the current situation and according to
Hany Said Abd Elbaset +6 more
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Waiting list statistics. I: Relation between admissions from waiting list and length of waiting list. [PDF]
The relation between changes in inpatient workload, measured as increases or decreases in the number of inpatients admitted from the waiting list, and the overall length of the waiting list was studied. Overall trends in admissions from the waiting list, the influence of seasonal patterns, and the impact of industrial action on admissions were also ...
M J, Goldacre, A, Lee, B, Don
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