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Improving accessibility for outpatients in specialist clinics: reducing long waiting times and waiting lists with a simple analytic approach

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Lack of resources is often cited as a reason for long waiting times and queues in health services. However, recent research indicates these problems are related to factors such as uncoordinated variation of demand and capacity, planning ...
Karl Arne Johannessen, Nina Alexandersen
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The Procedural Due Process Requirements for No-Fly Lists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
[Excerpt] “Imagine arriving at the airport and checking in at the ticketing booth. You tell the ticketing agent your name, your flight number, and show the agent your identification.
Panda, Soumya
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Australian hospital statistics 2013–14: elective surgery waiting times [PDF]

open access: yes
In 2013-14, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitted almost 700,000 patients from elective surgery waiting lists, this report finds. Summary How much elective surgery was there in 2013–14?

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The payment of hospital services: a waiting lists model [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyses the incentive properties of prospective payment systems for hospital contracts, a key feature in many health systems’ reforms. Building on current literature, the model explicitly allows for the existence of waiting time, modelled as ...
Alessandra Ferrari
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Attaching Patients in Primary Care Through Centralized Waiting Lists

open access: yesHealth Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2019
Canada has the lowest rate of attachment to primary care providers among OECD countries, which makes access and continuity of care problematic. To address this important issue, seven Canadian provinces have implemented centralized waiting lists (CWLs ...
Mylaine Breton   +13 more
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Prioritization of inquiries to physiotherapy in private practice. A text analysis

open access: yesFysioterapeuten, 2020
Purpose: Prioritization guidelines are supposed to support the physiotherapists in prioritizing inquiries. NOU 2018:16 has given three national criteria for prioritization: severity, benefit and resource. The purpose of this study is to look into how the
Gro Askland Øyehaug   +2 more
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Not Even A Place in Line: Public Housing & Housing Choice Voucher Capacity and Waiting Lists in Illinois [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Illinois is currently facing a housing crisis with countless families struggling to find a home that is affordable, safe and healthy to live in. This crisis has been exacerbated by decreases in funding for federal housing programs.

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Off Target: How Cuts to Child Care and After School Leave Out Public Housing Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cuts to child care and after-school proposed in New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Preliminary Budget will lead to thousands more children on even longer waiting lists for these services and many communities will face dramatic losses in these programs. Some
Gregory Bender
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OPTIMAL SHARING OF SURGICAL COSTS IN THE PRESENCE OF QUEUES [PDF]

open access: yes
We deal with a cost allocation problem arising from sharing a medical service in the presence of queues. We use a standard queuing theory model in a context with several medical procedures, a certain demand of treatment and a maximum average waiting time
Carmen Herrero Blanco, Paula González
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Divergent Trends by Patient Age in Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant Access

open access: yesKidney International Reports
Introduction: Although non-Hispanic Black (Black) and non-Hispanic White (White) racial disparities in access to transplantation have decreased over the past 2 decades, it remains unclear whether trends are consistent across all ages and transplant steps.
Jade Buford   +6 more
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