Information on delays in obtaining appointments in a city practice was collected. The results showed that although overall 89% of patients could be offered appointments with one of the doctors by the next day, only 60% chose to accept one, the remainder electing to wait for a particular doctor or surgery time. When patients making urgent requests for appointments were analysed separately, it wa...

BACKGROUND Resident work hour restrictions have led to the creation of the 'night float' to care for the patients of multiple primary teams after hours. These residents are often inundated with acute issues in the numerous patients they cover and are less able to address non-urgent issues that arise at night. Further, non-urgent pages may contribute to physician alarm fatigue and negatively imp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of the emergency department (ED) by elderly patients, their non-urgent visits and the prevalence of main disease for ED visits. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients aged 65 years and over who visited the ED of a tertiary care university hospital in Turkey between January 2015 and January 2016 retrospectively. RESULTS A total of 36,369 el...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To validate the AIMS65 score for predicting mortality of patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding and to evaluate the effectiveness of urgent (<8 hours) endoscopic procedures in patients with high AIMS65 scores. METHODS This was a 5-year single-center, retrospective study. Nonvariceal, upper gastrointestinal bleeding was assessed by using the AIM65 and Rockall...

This analysis uses data-mining techniques on an electronic medical record in the Emergency Department of a hospital to improve care while lowering costs. All patients' records for a 6-month period were examined, and records of those patients who had an initial complaint of shortness-of-breath were extracted. The data-mining techniques of transactional time series in the HPF procedure and the as...

Karl Evangelista's contribution to the special issue, "Improvisation, Musical Communities, and COVID-19 Pandemic."

This paper derives a solution approach to solve the outpatient appointment schedule problem for given numbers of routine and urgent patients considering a no-show probability to minimize the weighted sum of average patient wait time, physician idle time and overtime. An exact deterministic service time method is proposed to find the optimal schedule. An exponentially distributed service time pr...