Managing waiting times to predict no-shows and cancelations at a children’s hospital

Dynamic Pricing for Perishable Products with Cancelations and No-shows

Abstract Assume that customers are price sensitive, changes in the price of perishable products will bring changes in demand, and business can adjust the perishable products' price to influence the market demand, a perishable products multi-stage pricing model considering cancelations and no-shows is proposed, and the optimal pricing, the optimal expected revenue with the products' initial quan...

Managing waiting times in diagnostic medical imaging

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to analyse the variation in the delivery of diagnostic imaging services in order to suggest possible solutions for the reduction of waiting times, increase the quality of services and reduce financial costs. DESIGN This study provides a logic model to manage waiting times in a regional context. Waiting times measured per day were compared on the basis of the variabil...

Waiting lists, waiting times and admissions: an empirical analysis at hospital and general practice level.

We report an empirical analysis of the responses of the supply and demand for secondary care to waiting list size and waiting times. Whereas previous empirical analyses have used data aggregated to area level, our analysis focuses on the supply responses of a single hospital and the demand responses of the GP practices it serves, and distinguishes between first outpatient visits, inpatient admi...

Outpatient waiting times: indicators of hospital performance?

We monitored outpatient waiting times at UK military hospitals over an 18-month period (September 1996-March 1998). The highest mean waiting times for Consultant appointment were in urology (19 weeks) and orthopaedics (18 weeks). The lowest mean waiting times were in psychiatry (3 weeks), ENT surgery (5 weeks) and rheumatology (6 weeks). Waiting times for surgical specialties were around 50% hi...

Wide variations in hospital waiting times and lists.