Attendance patterns of non-attendance students.

Impact of attendance policies on course attendance among college students

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to investigate whether having a graded attendance policy would have an effect on course attendance among college students, and (b) to examine beliefs about education and attendance policies among college students. Results support the utility of graded attendance policies for increasing class attendance despite mixed findings with regard to educational ...

The Impact of Patient Non-attendance on Efficiency and Prediction of Non-attendance for Physical Therapy

A significant challenge for clinical administrators at outpatient physical therapy clinics is patient non-attendance. In this paper, we report the results of an archival data study for 4478 physical therapy patients that include patient attendance history, age group, payment method, and proximity to clinic. Analysis of attendance history revealed that 9790 out of 54,678 scheduled appointments w...

Non-attendance at a psychiatric clinic

ness and treatment may provide valuable insight into reasons for not attending. This consumer orientated approach could enable clinicians not only to improve clinic attendance but to assess their treatment efficacy. The aims of this study were: (a) to assess the rate of non-attendance at a psychiatric out-patient clinic (b) to compare personal and demographic characteristics of the non-attender...

Understanding non-attendance in outpatient paediatric clinics.

Outpatient clinic appointments are often not kept. There has been little study of the reasons for this, but failure to attend may affect future health. Our study was based on the children's outpatient department of a large inner city district general hospital. The parents of 34 children who had failed to keep appointments and of 12 who did attend were interviewed in depth and the appointment sy...

Prompt letters to reduce non - attendance – Applying