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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Appointments and Schedules"”.
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Comparison of show-rates for telephone and walk-in referrals for substance abuse services
… evaluation by the legal system between July and December 2001. The walk-in group consisted of 18 males and 2 females (mean age 34.04). The telephone-in group consisted of 18 males and 2 females (mean age 35.67). The investigator saw all participants for the initial appointment. The list of …
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Reducing missed behavioral health appointments in a federally qualified center : a quality improvement project
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health in public health services, leading to an increased reliance on telehealth for behavioral health care (Koonin et al., 2020). However, the shift to telehealth has been associated with higher rates of missed appointments …
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The Perceptions of Shared Medical Appointments among Health Care Workers at Parkland Hospital's Community Oriented Primary Care Clinics
INTRODUCTION: Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) are a novel way of delivering health care to patients in a group setting. Past research regarding SMA quality improvement have always been patient focused. There is a great deal in the literature that shows that patients perceive SMAs favorably and …
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Missed mental health outpatient appointments quality improvement project
… to operational inefficiencies such as missed appointments.The barriers to consider among patients who struggle to maintain mental health appointments include a belief by some that they no longer need to continue services because they are feeling better, have sufficient medication at home or …
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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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Reducing Patient No-Show Rates in Diabetes Clinic
BACKGROUND: Patients missing scheduled appointments, or no-shows, is a pervasive issue across outpatient clinics. The estimated no-show rate among primary care clinics is estimated to be between 14% and 50% (Daggy, Lawley et al. 2010). In addition, no-shows are estimated to cost the US healthcare …