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Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England [PDF]

Social Science & Medicine, 2016
A number of OECD countries have introduced waiting time prioritisation policies which give explicit priority to severely ill patients with high marginal disutility of waiting. There is however little empirical evidence on how patients are actually prioritised. We exploit a unique opportunity to investigate this issue using a large national dataset with
Gutacker, Nils, Siciliani, Luigi, Cookson, Richard   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Waiting for a Pediatric Chronic Pain Clinic Evaluation: A Prospective Study Characterizing Waiting Times and Symptom Trajectories.

Journal of Pain, 2019
Chronic pain during childhood is prevalent and costly, but the access to interdisciplinary pain care is limited. Studies investigating adults waiting for pain clinic evaluation found that symptoms and quality of life deteriorate over the waiting period ...
T. Palermo, M. Slack, Chuan Zhou, R. Aaron, E. Fisher, S. Rodriguez   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Daily Diagnostic Multidisciplinary Meeting to Reduce Time to Definitive Diagnosis in the Context of Primary Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2021
Laura J Hartley,1 Scott Evans,2 Mark A Davies,2 Suzanne Kelly,2 Jonathan J Gregory2 1University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; 2The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UKCorrespondence: Laura J ...
Hartley LJ, Evans S, Davies MA, Kelly S, Gregory JJ   +4 more
doaj  

Associations Between Waiting Times, Service Times, and Patient Satisfaction in an Endocrinology Outpatient Department: A Time Study and Questionnaire Survey

Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing, 2017
The issue of long patient waits has attracted increasing public attention due to the negative effects of waiting on patients’ satisfaction with health care.
Zhenzhen Xie, C. Or
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reduce Waiting Times in the Multiple Server queuing model (M, M, C) (FCFS, ∞, ∞) "Model Proposal"

Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017
   The research aims to propose a plan to reduce the waiting times in the Multiple Server queuing model (M, M, C) (FCFS, ∞, ∞), and adopt this plan, mainly on the arrival rate (λ), some process have been achieved in order to reduce the arrival rate
Abdulmunem. K. Hammadi, Samer Mohammed Jaber   +1 more
doaj  

Can Yardstick Competition Reduce Waiting Times?

Management Sciences, 2019
Yardstick competition is a regulatory scheme for local monopolists (e.g., hospitals), where the monopolist’s reimbursement is linked to performance relative to other equivalent monopolists.
N. Savva, T. Tezcan, Ozlem Yildiz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Client experiences with antenatal care waiting times in southern Mozambique

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundAntenatal care (ANC) provides a range of critical health services during pregnancy that can improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. In Mozambique, only half of women receive four or more ANC visits, which are provided for free at public ...
Estelle Gong, J. Dulá, Carla Alberto, Amanda de Albuquerque, M. Steenland, Quinhas Fernandes, R. Cuco, S. Sequeira, S. Chicumbe, E. Gudo, M. McConnell   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time-energy correlations in solar flare occurrence [PDF]

, 2010
The existence of time-energy correlations in flare occurrence is still an open and much debated problem. This study addresses the question whether statistically significant correlations are present between energies of successive flares as well as ...
C. Godano, Crosby, de Arcangelis, E. Lippiello, Hamon, L. de Arcangelis, Lee, Lippiello, Lippiello, Lu, Norman, Omori, Priest, Rosner, Sahraoui, Schreiber, Theiler, Wheatland, Wheatland, Wheatland   +19 more
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Modelling the Dynamics of a Public Health Care System: Evidence from Time-Series Data [PDF]

The English National Health Service was established in 1948, and has therefore yielded some long time series data on health system performance. Waiting times for inpatient care have been a persistent cause of policy concern since the creation of the NHS.
Fabrizio Iacone, Luigi Siciliani, Peter C Smith, Steve Martin   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Comparison of Waiting and Consultation Times in Convenient Care Clinics and Physician Offices

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2013
This study measures waiting times and consultation times at convenient care clinics (CCCs), and compares them with equivalent times in traditional, family practice, physician offices.
Avinash Patwardhan, Jeffery Davis, Patricia Murphy, Sandra Festa Ryan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source