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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"wait times"”.
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Mitigation of human supervisory control wait times through automation strategies
… Inefficient attention allocation leads to system wait times, which could eventually lead to critical events such as missed times on targets and degraded overall mission success. One potential solution to mitigating wait times is the introduction of automated decision support in order to relieve …
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Decreasing Wait Times for New Referrals to an Outpatient Specialty Clinic
… patients to an Outpatient Allergy Clinic are waiting for 60 days or more for an appointment which is of concern because of severe allergic reactions, such as anaphylaxis, from which they could suffer.</p> <p>The aim of this project was to reduce the wait time by 25 percent or 15 days for all …
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Reducing intraday patient wait times through just-in-time bed assignment
… high bed utilization and long intraday patient wait times. This project focuses on the neuroscience units as a microcosm of the hospital. MGH consistently operates near capacity. Patients from the emergency department, the perioperative environment, intensive care units (ICUs) and other sources …
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Improving Patient Satisfaction, Wait Times, and Access to Care in a College Health Setting; Expanding the RN Role as Prescribing Agent With Standardized Procedures
<p>The CNL theme for this project is Nursing Leadership, Advocate for the Profession and is inspired by the Institute of Medicine’s call for all nurses to work to the maximum scope of their practice. The specific aim was to demonstrate RN confidence working independently, and proficiency using one …
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The Impact of Increased Number of Acute Care Beds to Reduce Emergency Room Wait Time
Reducing ED wait times is a top health care priority for the Ontario government and hospitals in Ontario are incentivised to meet provincial ED wait time targets. In this study, we considered the costs and benefits associated with increasing the number of acute-care beds to reduce the time an …
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Modeling neuroscience patient flow and inpatient bed management
… have to be aligned in order to avoid long wait times for beds. The situation is complicated by the specialization of beds and the medical needs of patients, which place constraints on the possible bed-patient assignments. The hospital currently manages these processes using fairly manual …
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Reinventing the Medical Request Process in a Correctional Healthcare Setting
… of medical needs. The project addressed long wait times for detainees who have submitted a request for services from the medical department. The goal of this project was to reduce wait times for medical requests, and provide service for a greater number of patients. This project is needed …
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Disparities in Admission and Pediatric Emergency Outcomes by Race, Ethnicity, and Language.
… include differences in triage acuity scores, wait times, diagnostic testing and imaging, pain management, and admission. The primary aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between REaL and core ED quality of care outcomes in an academic pediatric ED including wait time, length of …
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Improving access through stochastic modeling in Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
… this discrete event simulation tool. To simulate wait times, users input arrival rates, service times, patience, probabilities of relapses and probabilities to go from one program to another. We determine that blocking is one of the main drivers of the delays. This model is not only useful for …
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Development and application of dynamic models for predicting transit arrival times
… adherence and lengthening of passenger wait times. Providing accurate information on transit vehicle arrival times is critical to reduce the negative impacts on transit users. In this study, models for dynamically predicting transit arrival times in urban settings are developed, …
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Mitigating the impact of a time-dependent production process
Value-added processes that bear associated wait times occur frequently during production manufacturing and increase cycle time. Since the wait time is integral to the value created by the process, it can be difficult to reduce the cycle time impact. The use of adhesives and the impact of their …
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Scheduling for Reduced Tail Task Latencies in Highly Utilised Datacenters
… existing scheduling designs impose 3x larger wait times on tail tasks, that is, tasks that finish the last among tasks of jobs. This leads to large tail task completion times and consequently, elevated job completion times. In this dissertation, we propose a new decentralised scheduling model, …
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Essays in Environmental and Healthcare Market Design
… efficiency in the interest of equity. Wait times then typically serve as a substitute rationing mechanism, creating their own distinct efficiency and distributional consequences. I study these issues in the context of the Veterans Health Administration (VA) healthcare system, which …
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My Identi T: Improving Mental Health Outcomes Through Group Support In Pre-Treatment Transgender Teens
… worsen this. Nationally, gender programs have waitlists beyond a year. In conservative states, providers are fewer in number, and legislation may prohibit services. Thus, gender programs rely on mental health and primary care providers to assist youth who express a strong desire to be a gender …
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Reducing Wait Time of Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Administration to Inpatients by Increasing the Numbers of Chemotherapy Providers
… is to decrease the chemotherapy administration wait-time for adult oncology patients by increasing the numbers of certified providers. Unfortunately as an oncology unit, about 44% of the providers are not active chemotherapy providers. As a CNL, we must constantly evaluate our microsystems to …
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A Design Assembly Technique for FPGA Back-End Acceleration
Long wait times constitute a bottleneck limiting the number of compilation runs performed in a day, thus risking to restrict Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) adaptation in modern computing platforms. This work presents an FPGA development paradigm that exploits logic variance and hierarchy as a …
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Triage Training: Improving Access to Care
… patient access to care by decreasing both wait times for patients and the LWBS rate for the unit, which approaches 6%. As part of a military hospital, the unit provides for veterans, active duty service members, and their families, with ages ranging from infant to elderly, in a 24 hour …
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A Generic BI Application for Real-time Monitoring of Care Processes
Patient wait times and care service times are key performance measures for care processes in hospitals. Managing the quality of care delivered by these processes in real-time is challenging. A key challenge is to correlate source medical events to infer the care process states that define patient …
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Various Approaches to the Stochastic K-Server and Stacker-Crane Problems
… is essential in order to keep costs and wait times down. In this thesis we present these types of problems in a more general framework, expanding applicability of our discussion to an even wider domain of problems. We present fast new al- gorithms with supporting theoretical and …
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Disability and Return to Work Following Musculoskeletal Injury
… with rotator cuff syndrome during surgery wait times; and the disability progression during wait times in the same population. From the existing literature, we found evidence that greater impairment in physical function was associated with e longer time to return to work following a …
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