Analytical models to determine room requirements in outpatient clinics

General practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics

There has been much concern about the wide variations in general practitioners' referral rates and the consequent implications for cost and quality of care. This has led to a call to evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of referrals. A collaborative audit of referrals to outpatient clinics was conducted by 127 general practitioners in 33 practices in the Oxford region. Records were ke...

Mathematical Models to Simultaneously Determine Overtime Requirements and Schedule Cells

The problem studied in this paper was inspired from an actual textile company. The problem is more complex than usual scheduling problems in that we compute overtime requirements and make scheduling decisions simultaneously. Since having tardy jobs is not desirable, we allow overtime to minimize the number of tardy jobs. The overall objective is to maximize profits. We present various mathemati...

Labour Room Clinics

General practitioners' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics. II. Locations of specialist outpatient clinics to which general practitioners refer patients.

Although linkage by computer of hospital administration systems across all clinics in a health district is becoming a practical possibility, complete records of general practitioners' referrals to outpatient clinics will be difficult to achieve. Data from a large study of general practitioners' referrals to such clinics were used to calculate the proportion of referrals that crossed district bo...

The Time Allowed to Patients to Explain Their Problem in Outpatient Clinics of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Hospitals

Introduction: Listening to patients is essential for medical practice and patient care. This study was conducted to determine the time given to patients to explain their problem before being interrupted and redirected by clinical faculties in outpatient clinics of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The cross-sectional observational descriptive study was carried out in year 2011-...