PO-1023: Reducing waiting room times - A 5 year review of an in-house KPI tool

Meeting the challenge of reducing waiting times for surgery.

T article by Snider and associates in the current issue of the Journal (Can J Surg 2005;48:35560) tackles the thorny issue of waiting for access to care in Canada’s public health system. In their study, the investigators surveyed patients who waited for total hip or knee arthroplasty in both community orthopedic practice and an urban academic tertiary care setting. Significantly, over half the ...

Models of Emergency Departments for Reducing Patient Waiting Times

In this paper, we apply both agent-based models and queuing models to investigate patient access and patient flow through emergency departments. The objective of this work is to gain insights into the comparative contributions and limitations of these complementary techniques, in their ability to contribute empirical input into healthcare policy and practice guidelines. The models were develope...

review of radiographic methods in dental implantology

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application of queuing analytic theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department: a review

Stress-reducing effects of real and artificial nature in a hospital waiting room.

OBJECTIVES This field study investigated the potential stress-reducing effects of exposure to real or artificial nature on patients in a hospital waiting room. Additionally, it was investigated whether perceived attractiveness of the room could explain these effects. DESIGN In this between-patients experimental design, patients were exposed to one of the following: real plants, posters of pla...