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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"no-shows"”.
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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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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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A Descriptive Study of Students Who Were Accepted for Admission at West Texas A&M University But Did Not Enroll
… educational intentions, and their reasons for not enrolling after they had been admitted. The subjects of the study were first-time freshmen accepted for admission to a mid-size, public, southwestern university who did not enroll for the fall 1997 semester. Statistically significant differences …
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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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Counterfactual Prescriptions Via Hierarchical ML For Missed Chemotherapy Appointment Prevention
… 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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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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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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Improving Performance of Open Access Clinics
… overtime due to uncertainties such as patient no-shows, variable service time and variable daily demand. These aspects have not been studied previously in an open access setting. This study investigates different management options to improve clinical performance in terms of patient waiting …
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Improving Access to Care through Web Based Appointment
… 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 practice within the health center setting that delivers a safe, effective, …
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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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Improving Treatment Outcomes For American Indians With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through The Use Of Telepsychaitry
… this program, there was a 4% decrease in patient no shows and rescheduled appointments increased by 23%. Of the 37 patients that completed the program through the 12 weeks, 43% expressed a reduction in PTSD symptoms, 49% saw no change and 8% reported a worsening in PTSD symptoms. Telepsychiatry is …
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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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Essays on Health Care Accessibility
… their scope of practice restrictions. Using a novel dataset of claims and electronic health records data paired with a difference-in-differences research design, I quantify the effects of relaxed scope of practice laws on 1) workload and patient allocation between NPs and physicians; 2) NPs’ …
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Applications of optimization in probability, finance and revenue management
… compute tight bounds when S is a union of a polynomial number of convex sets, and up to second order moments of X are known. We show that it is NP-hard to obtain such bounds if the domain of X is Rn+, or if moments of third or higher order are given. Using convex optimization methods, we prove …
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Flexibility in Platform Operations
… both supply and demand. For example, Uber cannot match a rider and a driver who are far apart in time or location. To address such challenges, platforms increasingly rely on flexibility levers—interventions that encourage market participants to be more accommodating in when or how they …