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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"missed appointments"”.
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A Clinic Coordinator Improves Clinic Efficiency and Decreases Missed Appointments in a Multidisciplinary Setting
Introduction: Missed appointments represent a significant problem in the medical community. A clinic coordinator was hired to provide a dedicated source for communication, scheduling, and care of patients between multiple providers in the same clinic. We investigated whether the coordinator …
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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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Non-attendance at drug service Hepatitis C outreach clinics: clients and staff experiences.
… evidence many suggestions have been given for missed appointments by hepatitis C patients. For example, they forget, lead ‘chaotic lifestyles’, the infection is ‘not a priority’ to them and they are ‘hard-to-reach’.</p> <p>This study was undertaken to investigate beneath these ‘surface’ reasons …
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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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Effect of Attending Doctor Changes on Orthodontic Treatment Times and Results
… ≥0.602), patient age at T1 (P ≥0.747), total appointments (P ≥0.128), missed appointments (P ≥0.050), or cancelled appointments (P ≥0.183). When the main subject group was divided into thirds by T1 PAR (low, medium, and high T1 PAR), there were statistically significant differences in …
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Use of chart review tool and peer feedback to influence physician prescribing of controlled substances
… 6 months, and half of the violations were due to missed appointments with specialists to help manage pain. Patients were more likely to have a violation of controlled substance policy in the past 6 months if they were prescribed both a benzodiazepine (BZD) and an opioid (p=0.04), had a documented …
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Reducing missed behavioral health appointments in a federally qualified center : a quality improvement project
… has been associated with higher rates of missed appointments in behavioral health settings (Koonin et al., 2020). Problem: Since January 2023, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeastern Michigan has experienced a significant increase in no-show rates compared to the periods …
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Missed mental health outpatient appointments quality improvement project
… lost 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 …
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Examining Healthcare Access Disparities: Social Determinants and Patient Experiences at Valley HealthCare
… areas reported significantly higher rates of missed appointments. Individuals with limited health literacy expressed greater dissatisfaction and were more likely to delay or forgo preventive care. Additionally, the absence of reliable transportation in rural ZIP codes was strongly associated …
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A study of the dental health status of children participating in the Child Health Investment Partnership
… of morbidity (D/DMF). The percentage of failed appointments was not found to be significantly different at 21% (comparison group) and 20% (CHIP). A survey containing nine questions was constructed by the researcher and administered to five dentists participating in the CHIP program. Missed …
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“Foreign migrant women's perceptions of obstetric care in the Cape Town metro pole.”
… in adherence issues with medications, potential missed appointments, issues around informed consent and missed opportunities at health promotion. The women had a poor understanding of the local healthcare system's design and had expecta tions in relation to their own experience of the system in …
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Essays on Health Care Accessibility
… barriers as a reason they miss their medical appointments, but it is not known whether improved public transit leads to fewer missed appointments. I examine the frequency of “no-shows” at a large health system before and after the opening of a large light rail line that significantly improved …