Appointments and Schedules
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Should anesthesia groups advocate funding of clinics and scheduling systems to increase operating room workload?

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Knowledge of patterns related to patient visits in a multispecialty group is important for helping anesthesia groups make strategic and tactical decisions relevant to increasing anesthesia workload. METHODS: The authors studied surgery ... Read more...

Redesign of a university hospital preanesthesia evaluation clinic using a queuing theory approach.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Changes in patient length of stay (the duration of 1 clinic visit) as a result of the introduction of an electronic patient file system forced an anesthesia department to change its outpatient clinic organization. In this study, we ... Read more...

The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Environmental contingencies inherent in neighborhoods and communities have been shown to affect individual behavior. The authors analyzed neighborhood and individual factors predicting initial outpatient treatment attendance and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Appointments and Schedules'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Should anesthesia groups advocate funding of clinics and scheduling systems to increase operating room workload? 30 Oct 2009
• Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving mammography screening. 30 Oct 2009
• Redesign of a university hospital preanesthesia evaluation clinic using a queuing theory approach. 30 Oct 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 2009
• Case of the missed opportunity for temporal artery biopsy. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of technology in the orthodontic practice: a day in the life. 29 Sep 2009
• Modeling procedure and surgical times for current procedural terminology-anesthesia-surgeon combinations and evaluation in terms of case-duration prediction and operating room efficiency: a multicenter study. 29 Sep 2009
• Beliefs and barriers to follow-up after an emergency department asthma visit: a randomized trial. 26 Sep 2009
• Revenue cycle management. 24 Sep 2009
• How do we support follow-up with the primary care provider after an emergency department visit for asthma? 19 Sep 2009
• Understanding mealtime changes for adults with cerebral palsy and the implications for support services. 30 Aug 2009
• Acceptance of genitourinary medicine clinic appointments within 48 hours is influenced by patient perception of risk but not by symptoms. 30 Aug 2009
• Appointments failure among female patients at a dental school clinic in Saudi Arabia. 30 Aug 2009
• Dental school patients with limited English proficiency: the California experience. 30 Aug 2009
• Bridging the poverty gap in dental education: how can people living in poverty help us? 30 Aug 2009
• Numbers of simultaneous turnovers calculated from anesthesia or operating room information management system data. 30 Aug 2009
• A survey of ENT out-patient department facilities in district general hospitals across England. 30 Jul 2009
• Implementing an appointment-based system in A&E to ensure appropriate use of services. 30 Jul 2009
• Are there any differences between patients attending walk-in and appointment genitourinary medicine clinics? 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Appointments and Schedules'

Definition: The different methods of scheduling patient visits, appointment systems, individual or group appointments, waiting times, waiting lists for hospitals, walk-in clinics, etc.

Descriptor UI: D001071

Alternative terms: Appointments and Schedules; Schedules and Appointments; Schedules; Schedule; Schedules, Patient; Patient Schedules; Patient Schedule; Schedule, Patient; Appointments; Appointment; Patient Appointments; Appointment, Patient; Appointments, Patient; Patient Appointment;

Tree Number: N04.452.095;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: APPOINTMENTS