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Careful return to elective orthopaedic surgery in an acute hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic shows no increase in morbidity or mortality

open access: yesBone & Joint Open, 2021
Aims: Elective orthopaedic surgery was cancelled early in the COVID-19 pandemic and is currently running at significantly reduced capacity in most institutions.
Monu Jabbal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Waiting for Better Times”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Men's Health, 2016
Swedish fathers are largely involved in their infant’s care, and Sweden has a generous parental leave, with 2 months especially assigned for fathers. The prevalence of depressive symptoms postpartum for fathers appears to be similar as for mothers in ...
Maigun Edhborg RN, PhD   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Data-Driven Adaptive Technique to Generate a Physician Visiting Schedule for Better Patient Experience

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
This paper proposes an adaptive data-driven novel technique for generating physician’s schedules exploring the trade-off between physician waiting time and patient experience.
Saria Safdar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waiting times in emergency departments: a resource allocation or an efficiency issue?

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In recent years, the flow of patients to the Emergency Departments (ED) of Western countries has steadily increased, thus generating overcrowding and extended waiting times.
M. Vainieri, C. Panero, Lucrezia Coletta
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Deadlocks and waiting times in traffic jam [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In a city of right moving and upmoving cars with hardcore constraint, traffic jam occurs in the form of bands. We show how the bands are destroyed by a small number of strictly left moving cars yielding a deadlock phase with a rough edge of left cars. We
Bando   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

Covid-19: Waiting times in England reach record highs

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2020
More than 83 000 patients in England waited more than a year for NHS treatment in July, the highest number since October 2008 and an 81-fold increase from 1032 in July last year, latest figures have shown.1 The number of people who had been on waiting ...
Shaun T. Griffin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Long Waiting Times for Elective Hospital Care – Breaking the Vicious Circle by Abandoning Prioritisation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020
Background Policies assigning low-priority patients treatment delays for care, in order to make room for patients of higher priority arriving later, are common in secondary healthcare services today.
Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit Sæther   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real waiting times for surgery. Proposal for an improved system for their management

open access: yesGaceta Sanitaria, 2014
Objectives: In Spain, official information on waiting times for surgery is based on the interval between the indication for surgery and its performance.
Ignacio Abásolo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time-Dependent Waiting Times at Recharging Stations

open access: yesComputers & Operations Research, 2019
In the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (EVRPTW) the vehicles have a limited driving range and must recharge their battery at some points on their route.
M. Keskin, G. Laporte, B. Çatay
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Managing Waiting Times to Predict No-shows and Cancelations at a Children’s Hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose: Since long waits in hospitals have been found to be related to high rates of no-shows and cancelations, managing waiting times should be considered as an important tool that hospitals can use to reduce missed appointments.
Domínguez-Caamaño, Carlos   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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