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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"waiting times"”.
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Patient waiting times within public Emergency Centres in the Western Cape: describing key performance indicators with respect to waiting times within Western Cape Emergency Centres in 2013-2014
… quality of care, with a major emphasis on waiting times, measured as time-based KPI's. These times are related to the various stages of a patient journey through the Emergency Center. In South Africa this has not been routinely done. The Western Cape has conducted audits in recent years to …
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Improvement project to reduce waiting times in an EsSalud polyclinic in Ventanilla, Lima-Peru, using the DMAIC methodology
… methodology, focuses on reducing patient waiting times. Simulation using the ARENA software was the validation methodology chosen to evaluate the impact of the proposed changes. As a result, a significant reduction was obtained in the Average Waiting Time (AWT) for patients, from the …
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Assessing the impact of a waiting time survey on reducing waiting times in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa
Objective: A waiting time survey (WTS), conducted in 2007 at 94% of clinics in Cape Town, measured length of patient waiting times (WT) for services and provided recommendations to shorten waiting times. Whether subsequent implementation of these recommendations occurred was unknown, hence a study …
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Health systems appraisal of a primary health care services appointment system in Cape Town
… that patients are dissatisfied with their waiting times at public health services in Cape Town (3-6). In order to reduce waiting times and improve service efficiency, some community health centres (CHCs) in Cape Town have implemented a booking/appointment system which hitherto has been …
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Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis
Waiting times for elective surgery constitute a key performance indicator for the NHS. The principal policy response has been to introduce maximum waiting time targets against which performance is measured and rewarded. The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the mechanism of patients’ …
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Smart charging strategies for electric vehicle charging stations
… of charging stations and long charging/waiting times are major contributors to the slow uptake of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in many countries. To address the consumer concerns, many countries have undertaken projects to deploy a network of both fast and slow charging stations, …
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Analysis and optimization of the Emergency Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center via simulation
… that takes into account the fact that service times decrease and capacity increases when the system becomes congested. We show that the simulation model results in predictions of waiting times that closely match those observed in the data. Most importantly, we use the simulation model to …
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Application of Game Theory Analysis in Epidemiology and Service Management
… on resource allocation in epidemic control and waiting time competition in service management.</p><p>The first model considers the drug allocation problem when facing the outbreak of an international influenza pandemic. The drugs are for prophylactic use. Since drug stockpiles are presently …
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A Statistical Study of Hard X-Ray Solar Flares
… and the Rescaled Range (R/S) Method, sometimes referred to as "Hurst's method". Chapter one provides an introduction to hard x-ray flares within the context of the solar environment and a summary of the statistical paradigms solar astronomers currently work under. Chapter two presents the …
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Prioritization of critically unwell children in low resource primary healthcare centres in Cape Town, South Africa
… presenting to Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC), waiting times remain high and often result in significant delays for critically ill children. Delays in the recognition of critically unwell children are a key contributing factor to avoidable childhood mortality in Cape Town, South Africa. …
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Understanding the decision making process of beginning hormone therapy for trans individuals: a grounded theory study
… lack of support for the trans community, long waiting times, the urgency of need often leading to self-prescription of hormones, and the compromising gate-keeping roles of professionals working with this population. Seven participants, who had all made the decision to take hormones, were …
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The limitations related to the implementation of the triage policy and the identification of factors which can be used towards addressing them, in selected public, tertiary hospital
… of overcrowding as well as the reduction of waiting times for patients accessing the EA [Emergency Areas].
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EV Freight Charging Problem: a Two Body Problem of Vehicle and Station
… with multiple charging actions and stochastic waiting times. We develop a stochastic dynamic programming based path-planning model under uncertainty and reduce waiting times by 24% while increasing the system performance by 27%. We show that battery utilization at 80% is very efficient given …
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Accessibility and public transport in Sheffield: Case studies of policy implementation
… services is investigated in terms of walking and waiting times for 170 sampling points. Overall the route density - service frequency trade-off is found to be optimal. The spatial variation in the walking and waiting times is such that areas with high proportions of people dependent on public …
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Continuity of care for substance misusing prisoners released to a local community drug treatment system: A quantitative analysis of the systems approach.
… rates of drug treatment engagement, reduced waiting times and rates of return-to-prison (RTP); evaluate the impact on those measures post the introduction of the reconfigured single service delivery model ‘InsideOut’. Also, given this study’s pilot introduction of the statutory drugs data …
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A Clinical audit of the transgender unit at Groote Schuur hospital
… individuals attending the clinic and a review of waiting times and distance travelled to attend the clinic, was conducted. Methods The study was a clinical audit without a repeat data collection cycle. Participants included the MDT members working at GSH's Transgender Unit and individuals …
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A Simulation-Based Approach for Optimal Nurse Scheduling in an Emergency Department
… administrative policies while keeping patient waiting times within allowable limits. Determining the proper number of resources in an emergency department is a difficult problem because while assistance must be provided without delay at any time, the available resources are restricted by the …
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Assessment of waiting and service times in public and private health care facilities in Gondar district, North western Ethiopia
… provided predominantly as a result of the long waiting times. Studies done on private health facilities on the contrary reveal that patients are satisfied with the service delivered within short waiting times in these clinics. Even though the speculated waiting time is thought to be long among …
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Using mixed model research to evaluate the outcomes of a lean approach to the transformation of an orthopaedic radiology service
… DGH. Delivery of this service waspoor with long waiting times and poor levels of satisfaction amongst patientsand staff. This service was evaluated using lean tools in order to identify areasfor improvement, and changes were made in the form of a self containedRadiology suite within the …
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Addressing the Challenges of Chronic Disease Management in a Resource-Constrained Health System: The Role of Nurse-Led Shared Care Models for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
… patients with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): i) long waiting times for new patients; and, ii) unmet standards of care for patients with stable disease. Nurse-led care (NLC) models are one proposed approach to improving access to and quality of care.Objectives:The objectives were to i) compare the …
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