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Showing 1 to 20 of 480 for “"Appointment"”.
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Appointment planning and scheduling in primary care
… However, long waits for the next available appointments and delays in doctors offices combined with no-shows and late cancellations have resulted in low efficiency and high costs. This dissertation develops an innovative stochastic model for patient planning and scheduling in order to reduce …
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Improving Access to Care through Web Based Appointment
… the utilization and management of the web book appointment system; thereby, improving the self-awareness of self-scheduling non-urgent appointment visits for the healthy population. This project focuses on the college health population, as it improve patient access and develop a change in …
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Predicting outpatient appointment non-attendances using machine learning techniques
Missed appointments are estimated to cost the UK National Health Service (NHS) approximately £1 billion annually. Research that leads to a fuller understanding of the types of factors influencing spatial and temporal patterns of missed appointments is therefore timely. Current research is mainly …
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Counterfactual Prescriptions Via Hierarchical ML For Missed Chemotherapy Appointment Prevention
Missed medical appointments, including cancellations and no-shows, disrupt clinical workflows, reduce efficiency, and compromise patient care. Using 1.8 million chemotherapy appointments from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, this study develops a hierarchical machine learning framework that first …
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Analysis of administrative feasibility of the appointment of community service officers
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University, 1969
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Improving Appointment Keeping at an Eye Care Clinic Using a Revised Process Package
Missed appointments by patients are a major problem for health care professionals. To combat this issue, some optometrists use a pre-appointing system in which patients are scheduled for an annual exam a year after their initial visit. Prior to that subsequent appointment, clinic staff often try to …
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Executive Authority and Judicial Intervention: A Lawfare Critique into the President’s Powers of Appointment
Lawfare has generated significant debate within the South African legal and political circles. The Courts have been lambasted for their adjudication of disputes considered to be ‘political' and falling outside the scope of their judicial authority. The critique has been particularly scathing in …
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Health systems appraisal of a primary health care services appointment system in Cape Town
… (CHCs) in Cape Town have implemented a booking/appointment system which hitherto has been lacking. As part of an evaluative study at one community health centre in Cape Town, waiting time measurements were performed and attitudes of patients and staff assessed before (September 1993) and after …
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Analysis of the Appointment, Experiences, and Job Satisfaction of Leaders in Large Schools of Music
<p>Little is known about how male and female middle-level leaders in schools of music come into their leadership roles, how they distribute their time among responsibilities, and how the distribution of time or other factors impact their professional identities, creative activities, and job …
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Bridging the gender gap: factors enabling female directors to affect the appointment of female CEOs
… empower them to become more influential in CEO appointment decisions, and this empowerment, in turn, will increase the likelihood that firms will appoint a female CEO. Furthermore, I argue that the positive effect of female board representation on the probability of women being appointed to the …
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Analysis of the Appointment of the First African American Ambassador to Apartheid-Era South Africa
… the most influence on the decision. The Perkins appointment exemplified how a personnel selection might reaffirm national reconciliation of opposing views on race, ethnicity, democratic values and national interests.
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Criteria for Initial Appointment in Rank and Subsequent Promotion for Faculty in Two-Year Public Colleges
… faculty and vocational faculty at initial appointment and subsequent promotion. Additionally, the study sought to determine the prevalence of collective bargaining and tenure among colleges with faculty rank and the currency of the policies about faculty promotion.</p> <p>To collect the …
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Selected Personality Constructs as Correlates of Personnel Appointment, Appraisal, and Mobility in Seventh-day Adventist Schools
… role of personality as it relates to personnel appointment, appraisal, and mobility.</p> <p>Method. A demographic questionnaire and the Temperament Inventory were administered to 486 teachers, teacher/principals, principals, supervisors, and superintendents in nine local conference school …
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Appointment of female and male teachers to managerial positions into the Ministry of Education in Kabompo District
The study was designed to investigate the appointment of female and male teachers to management positions in The Ministry of Education in Kabompo District.Those investigated were female and male teachers were in managerial positions in Kabompo district. The researcher collected data using …
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Multi-Mode Robust Appointment Scheduling for Uncertain Service Time and Random No-Show Using Min-Max Optimization
The appointment scheduling issue has been widely used in a variety of industries, including those that provide services, healthcare, finance, and legal advice. Uncertainty of processing time and job no-shows make the problem more challenging. The majority of the literature now in existence makes …
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Comparative analysis of judicial independence in Zambia and South Africa : security of tenure, appointment and removal procedures
The principle of judicial independence has been described in the case of Law Society of Lesotho v The Prime Minister and Another, as requiring judicial officers to be free to make their decisions without depending on the influence of another or any external pressure. The judiciary only owes its …
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The role of initial coping strategies on subsequent appointment attendance in individuals with HIV: a longitudinal analysis
… with other adherence related behaviors such as appointment attendance. Thus, the current literature may be missing an entire group of HIV patients who do not follow through with medical care long enough to receive medications or other available treatments and services. The primary purpose of …
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Identifying Factors Contributing to Post-discharge Appointment Attendance for Patients with Heart Failure: A Quality Improvement Project
… patients hospitalized with HF have a follow-up appointment within seven days of discharge. Despite its importance, the post-discharge follow-up appointment is not always scheduled for patients. In addition, only 30%-50% of the scheduled follow-up appointments are kept. Patients not scheduled for …
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The appointment of a voluntary administrator by unsecured creditors : a case for the introduction of such a right
… show that as much as 48 % of all external appointments over "insolvent" companies are by the appointment of a Voluntary Administrator. The scheme fails to allow the largest class of creditor, the unsecured creditor, the right to initiate the appointment of an Administrator over an insolvent …
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