background different strategies for addressing the challenge of prioritizing elective patients efficiently and fairly have been introduced in norway. in the time period studied, there were three possible outcomes for elective patients that had been through the process of priority setting: (i) high priority with assigned individual maximum waiting time; (ii) low priority without a maximum waiti...

â  ba ckground the only curative therapy for end-stage liver disease is transplantation but due to a shortage of available donor livers the waiting list mortality is high. this study aimed to evaluate the outcome and characteristics of patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation in shiraz, southern iran during the period from april 2004 to march 2007. methods medical records of all c...

conclusions using the simulation as a decision making tool helps us to decide how we can reduce outpatient's waiting time. comparison of outputs of this scenario and the based- case scenario in simulation model shows that combining physician's work time changing with patient's admission time changing (scenario 9) would reduce patient waiting time about 73.09%. due to dynamic and complex nature ...

In this paper, we report on experience building our geographic information system GODOT on top of an object-oriented database system. In particular, we describe our experiences and methodology in selecting such a system, some of the problems we encountered, and possible solutions. Speciically, after identifying a range of spatial predicates, we show that the intersection join is of crucial impo...

abstract introduction: the amount of waiting time is an indicator of level of access to hospital services and can be measured as one of the indicators of the effectiveness of hospital performance. this study aimed to determine the average waiting time in shahid rahnamoon and afshar clinics. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross – sectional study was conducted with a simple size of 264 pa...