USA [1] 8 Voice To evaluate the practicality and acceptability of using cell phone reminders to improve HAART adherence in HIV-infected adolescents Cell phone reminders were practical and acceptable to pilot study participants. A 12-week intervention was not adequate for most subjects. Ireland [2] SMS To audit non-attendance rates at ENT outpatient clinics following the introduction of a text r...

This paper aims to find the optimal arrangement of consultation rooms in the specialist outpatient clinics of a hospital in Singapore to maximize the utilization factor. Doctors’ utilization and waiting time of the patients were also optimized in this research. This was done by building and validating queuing and simulation models to predict and model the real life variance and uncertainty in t...

BACKGROUND GPs and patients are frequently asked to evaluate mental health care, but studies including evaluations from both groups are rare. OBJECTIVE To assess the association between GPs' and patients' assessment of mental health outpatient clinic in Norway and identify important health care predictors for patient and GP satisfaction with the clinics. METHODS Two cross-sectional national...

PURPOSE Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a common complication of medical care resulting in high morbidity and medical expenditure. Population level estimates of outpatient ADEs are limited. Our objective was to provide national estimates and characterizations of outpatient ADEs and determine risk factors associated with these events. METHODS Data are from the National Center for Health Statist...

INTRODUCTION In developing countries diabetes mellitus affects economically productive age group; more often affecting the productive member of the family. The objective of the study was to estimate the direct and indirect cost of illness of patients with DM attending the selected outpatient clinics in Kathmandu Valley. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in four outpatient clinic...

OBJECTIVE To review the medical utilization in children with cerebral palsy according to age and discern particularities. METHODS From January 2007 to December 2007, 10,659 children and adolescents between 1 and 18 years of age who had filed national insurance claims for a diagnosis of cerebral palsy were selected. Age was chosen as an independent variable, and the population was categorized ...

OBJECTIVES To test the extent to which two existing ambulatory case mix measures (Ambulatory Visit Groups and Ambulatory Patient Groups) and other variables can explain resource use variations in ophthalmic outpatient visits. DESIGN Three week prospective study of three consultant outpatient clinics. SETTING One ophthalmic hospital (Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear) and t...