Patients' no-shows negatively impact healthcare systems, leading to resources' underutilisation, efficiency loss, and cost increase. Predicting no-shows is key to developing strategies that counteract...
We carried out a retrospective study on 8382 appointments to computed tomography (CT) exams between January and December 2017. Penalised logistic regression and multivariate logistic regression were u...
The no-show rate in computerised tomography exams appointments was 6.65%. The two models performed similarly in terms of AUC. The penalised logistic regression model was selected using the parsimony c...
Our findings may be used to guide the development of strategies to reduce the no-show of patients to exam appointments....
The Chilean public health system serves 74% of the country's population, and 19% of medical appointments are missed on average because of no-shows. The national goal is 15%, which coincides with the a...
Guidelines for COVID-19 issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prompted state and local governments to mandate safety measures for screening high-risk patient populations and for ins...
Social determinants of health (SDH) are nonbiologic influencers of disease and health care disparities. This study focused on understanding the association between SDH and urology clinic "no-show" vis...
We retrospectively identified patients scheduled for urology clinic visits from October 2015 to June 2022 who completed a 10-question social needs screener. For each patient, demographic variables, an...
Of 5761 unique patients seen in clinic, 5293 completed a social needs screener. Respondents were most commonly male (62.8%), Hispanic (50.3%), English-speaking (75.5%), and insured by Medicare (46.0%)...
Unmet social needs were associated with increased no-show urology clinic visits. Routine social needs screening could identify at-risk patients who would benefit from services. This may be particularl...
The objective of this study was to compare complication, readmission, mortality, and cancellation rates between patients who had either an in-person or telemedicine preoperative cardiac clearance visi...
A retrospective review was conducted on patients who underwent a spine procedure at a single tertiary academic center from February 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Cancellations, inpatient complications, 9...
A total of 1,331 consecutive patients were included, with 775 patients (58.2%) having an in-person cardiac clearance visit and 556 (41.8%) having telemedicine clearance. Overall, the telemedicine coho...
Patients with cardiac disease who undergo preoperative telemedicine visits have greater preoperative surgical cancellation rates and postoperative 90-day mortality rates. Although preoperative telemed...
Long waiting time for treatment in the outpatient department has long been a complaint and has influenced patient's experience. It is critical to schedule patients for doctors to reduce patient's wait...
We collected outpatient appointment records from both online and offline appointment channels to conduct our empirical research. The empirical analysis is conducted in two steps. We first analyze the ...
Our results show that a patient with an online appointment decision has a shorter consultation waiting time compared with a patient with on-site appointment (β = -0.320,...
Our study confirms the effect of Internet use on reducing patient's waiting time. Patients consider both health-related risk factors and cost-related risk factors to make decisions on appointment chan...
The term "no-show" refers to scheduled appointments that a patient misses, or for which she arrives too late to utilize medical resources. Accurately predicting no-shows creates opportunities to inter...
Outpatient services in the UK, and in particular outpatient neurology services, are under considerable pressure with an ever-increasing gap between capacity and demand. To improve services, we first n...
We use State Sequence Analysis (SSA) on routinely collected data from a single neurology outpatient clinic. SSA is an exploratory methodology which allows patterns within sequences of appointments to ...
Of 1315 patients 887 patients had only one appointment. Among the 428 patients who had more than one appointment a 6 monthly cycle of appointments was apparent. SSA revealed that there were 11 distinc...
Neurology outpatient appointment sequences show great diversity, but there are some patterns which are common to specific diagnostic categories. Information about these common patterns could be used t...
We present our single-institution experience with the development of a same day access scheduling initiative for an outpatient radiation oncology unit, focusing on its potential influence on ameliorat...
From March 2021 to August 2022, a pilot initiative was conducted such that all new patients referred to a tertiary care-based radiation oncology department were offered the ability to be seen as a sam...
A total of 2897 patients were referred. Among the 2107 patients scheduled, three hundred and sixteen (15 %) opted for same day appointments. Black, Latino, and Asian patients were significantly more l...
The implementation of a same day access initiative narrowed disparities with respect to access-related benchmarks....
