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Bed capacity and surgical waiting lists: a simulation analysis
European Journal of Government and Economics, 2015 Waiting time for elective surgery is a key problem in the current medical world. This paper aims to reproduce, by a Monte Carlo simulation model, the relationship between hospital capacity, inpatient activity, and surgery waiting list size in teaching ...
Manel Antelo +2 more
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Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2017 This article sheds light on the experiences of people waiting for a liver transplant. I argue that waiting lists serve as a technological tool to deal with the uncertainties inherent in medicine, but like Hercules fi ghting Hydra, one tamed uncertainty ...
Julia Rehsmann
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Waiting lists, waiting times and admissions: an empirical analysis at hospital and general practice level [PDF]
, 2004 We report an empirical analysis of the responses of the supply and demand for secondary care to waiting list size and waiting times. Whereas previous empirical analyses have used data aggregated to area level, our analysis is novel in that it focuses ...
Gravelle, H. +2 more
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Reducing queues: demand and capacity variations [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate how waiting lists or queues could be reduced without adding more resources; and to describe what factors sustain reduced waiting-times.
Bergbrant, Ing-Marie +3 more
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ECONOMIC AND CLINICAL IMPACT OF LONG WAITING LISTS FOR SCOLIOSIS SURGERY [PDF]
Coluna/ColumnaObjectives: To evaluate the implications of waiting lists for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) surgery in the Unified Health System (SUS), from the perspective of managers and physicians, and to propose cost-effective solutions.
Juliana Barbosa Goulardins +5 more
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The Arizona KidsCare CHIP Enrollment Freeze: How Has It Impacted Enrollment and Families? [PDF]
, 2011 Outlines the implementation of Arizona's enrollment freeze on its Children's Health Insurance Program and its impact on the number of children on waiting lists, families facing losses in income and employer-sponsored coverage, and federal matching ...
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A systematized approach for reduction of medical appointment waiting list
Production, 2022 Paper aims This work aims to develop a systematized approach for the reduction of medical appointment waiting lists, proposing an optimization decision-making model followed by continuous people engagement towards a systematic approach for waiting list ...
Bruno S. Gonçalves +3 more
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Reviewing the review process : examining decision-making in practice [PDF]
, 2001 A national multi-disciplinary audit showed variation in SLT practice on the decision to review pre-school children or place them on waiting lists following initial assessment.
Anderson, Carolyn, van der Gaag, Anna
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"Drop in" gastroscopy outpatient clinic - experience after 9 months
BMC Gastroenterology, 2012 Background Logistics handling referrals for gastroscopy may be more time consuming than the examination itself. For the patient, "drop in" gastroscopy may reduce uncertainty, inadequate therapy and time off work.
Huppertz-Hauss Gert +6 more
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Geographic Differences in Hospital Waiting Times [PDF]
, 2012 Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this article, we undertake a DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux reweighting approach to attribute variation in waiting time to clinical need or to discrimination.
Johar, M +4 more
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