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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"no-show"”.
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Reducing Patient No-Show Rates in Diabetes Clinic
… 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 system …
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Multi-Mode Robust Appointment Scheduling for Uncertain Service Time and Random No-Show Using Min-Max Optimization
… advice. Uncertainty of processing time and job no-shows make the problem more challenging. The majority of the literature now in existence makes unrealistic assumptions about most real-world scenarios, such as constant service time, and they use a vast quantity of data to view the service time …
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Telehealth Effect on Show Rate in Neonatology Follow Up Clinic: A Prototype Model
… evaluates the impact of telehealth on reducing no-show rates in a neonatology follow-up clinic using a randomized quasi-experimental design, while assessing the feasibility of a future comprehensive intervention. Targeting a reduction in no-show rates from 25% to 15%, the study employs a …
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Reducing missed behavioral health appointments in a federally qualified center : a quality improvement project
… has experienced a significant increase in no-show rates compared to the periods before and during the pandemic. Purpose: This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to reduce the no-show rate by 5% by identifying barriers to attendance and implementing targeted interventions, including …
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Identifying Factors Contributing to Post-discharge Appointment Attendance for Patients with Heart Failure: A Quality Improvement Project
… 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 their one-week post-discharge HF follow-up appointment are more susceptible to inadequate HF management, …
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Clusterización y aplicación del método Newsvendor para optimizar los perfiles de sobreventa en vuelos single leg
… demanda con distribución empírica acumulada de no-shows, y la operacionalización de dichas políticas en producción mediante un clasificador basado en XGBoost. Los vuelos son segmentados en tres perfiles de demanda, Alta, Media y Baja, diferenciados por RASK (Ingreso por Asiento-Kilómetro …
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Enhancing Telehealth Use To Reduce No-Shows in a Rural Arizona Outpatient Clinic
… of telemedicine as a strategy to reduce no-show rates at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The project examined whether a brief educational session could improve provider understanding and willingness to use telehealth. Background: Patients missing appointments is a common …
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Comparison of show-rates for telephone and walk-in referrals for substance abuse services
… that participants in the walk-in group were not more likely to show up for the initial appointment than participants in the telephone-in group (χ<sup>2</sup> = .476, p = .490). The results indicate that meeting with the counselor prior to the initial appointment does not decrease no-show …
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Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television
… promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education as a primary learning goal even though children 2-6 spend, on average, more than two hours a day exposed to media. This thesis examines preschool programming through political economic theory to …
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Appointment planning and scheduling in primary care
… 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 patients’ waiting time and optimize primary care …
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Combinations of time series forecasts: when and why are they beneficial?.
… empirical evaluations are discussed from a novel point of view, questioning the benefit of using sophisticated forecasting methods without domain knowledge. An own empirical study focusing on relevant off-the shelf forecasting and forecast combination methods underlines the competitiveness …
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Implementing an Evidence Based Practice Guideline to Standardize the Care of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
… Titler (2010) and built on Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Theory (Rogers, 2003), guided this project. Interventions used to promote the use of guideline included the use of opinion leaders, education classes, audit and feedback of performance during providers’ meetings. METHODS: A ‘pre and post’ …
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Abyssal benthonic foraminifera and the carbonate saturation of sea water and a benthonic foraminferal carbonate saturation history for the Cape Verde Basin for the last 550,000 years
… relatively isolated from the influx of terrigenous detritus and have low sedimentation rates which vary between 0.5 and 0.7 cm/1000 years. They do no show the Atlanic Ocean low-carbonate glacial, high-carbonate interglacial cycles seen in other, higher sedimentation rate cores. This supports …