Managing wait-times can be particularly challenging not only due to variable patient demands, but also due to variability in the number of providers caused by frequent relocations of military personnel. Existing research primarily focuses on stand-alone clinics, whereas this research takes the novel ...
Reducing Patient Waiting Time in an Outpatient Clinic: A Discrete Event Simulation (DES) Based Approach In spite of the proliferation of information and the growth of medical technology, patient wait time remains a problem in today's healthcare systems. Patie... NUI Hossain,Hunter Debusk,Md Ma...
alerts are sent to their cell phones giving them updates about their place in line and wait times. Patients are still free, and encouraged, to wait outside of the clinic, in their vehicles, or another area away from staff and other patients. Employees can easily manage patients using a rea...
eADVICE (electronic Advice and Diagnosis Via the Internet following Computerised Evaluation), an interactive eHealth program addressing paediatric urinary incontinence for reducing waiting times in paediatric urinary incontinence outpatient clinics,The C
306In the COVID Aftermath, Using an Innovative Collaborative Approach to Improve Wait Times for Skin Cancer Patients Combined clinics see more patients and attract higher tariffs per patient, whilst reducing outpatient attendances and wait times to surgery. This has ... C Brennan,M Stone,R Pinder...
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The goal of the planning algorithm is to reduce patient check-in waiting times in multispecialty clinics by exploring the patient interaction with multiple stages in the system (i.e., the clinic front desk and the providers). The paper results show that in a multi-stage outpatient clinic, ...
Improving accessibility for outpatients in specialist clinics: reducing long waiting times and waiting lists with a simple analytic approachdoi:10.1186/s12913-018-3635-3Background Lack of resources is often cited as a reason for long waiting times and queues in health services. However, recent ...
IntroductionThe two week wait (2WW) referral leads to significant burden on outpatient clinics. This delays appointments for patients that may not fit the 2WW criteria. Only 5% of patients referred as 2WW will have an upper GI malignancy and it may not be necessary for all these patients ...
VA Health Care: Reliability of Reported Outpatient Medical Appointment Wait Times and Scheduling Oversight Need Improvement Without reliable measurement of how long patients are waiting for medical appointments, however, VHA is less equipped to identify areas that need improvement... USGA Office - 《Gov...