Bu çal??mada, ?stanbul ve Çanakkale Bo?azlar?ndan geçen gemilerin tiplerine y?llara göre da??l?mlar?, k?lavuz alan oranlar?, kazalar geçi? için bekleme süreleri incelenmi?tir. Elde edilen bulgular, 2006-2020 y?llar? aras?nda gemi say?lar?n?n tedrici olarak azald???n? göstermektedir. Gemi aksine, her iki bo?azdan da toplam tonajlar? artm??t?r. Gerek gerekse Bo?az?’ndan 2010 y?l?ndan sonra 200 m’...

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on waiting times for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects on waiting times in accident and emer...

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Why are waiting times interesting? While waiting times in our everyday life are usually associated with boredom, the statistics of waiting times contains scientifically interesting information about (1) the mean rates of event occurrence and (2) the ran...

OBJECTIVES This research used queueing theory to analyze changes in outpatients' waiting times before and after the introduction of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. METHODS We focused on the exact drawing of two fundamental parameters for queueing analysis, arrival rate (λ) and service rate (µ), from digital data to apply queueing theory to the analysis of outpatients' waiting times. ...

INTRODUCTION A national audit of waiting times in England's genitourinary medicine clinics measures patient access. Data are collected by patient questionnaires, which rely upon patients' recollection of first contact with health services, often several days previously. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of patient-reported waiting times. METHODS Data on true waiting times were ...

BACKGROUND Reducing inequalities in access to the National Health Service is a key government priority. This study investigates the extent to which equitable access is achieved in one routinely administered hospital waiting list system. METHODS Using hospital episode statistics for one hospital in the North West of England, a retrospective study of waiting times to surgery was undertaken for ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether observable changes in waiting times occurred for certain key elective procedures between 1997 and 2007 in the English National Health Service and to analyse the distribution of those changes between socioeconomic groups as an indicator of equity. DESIGN Retrospective study of population-wide, patient level data using ordinary least squares regression to investig...

background: waiting time indicates the feasibility of access to medical services and can be measured as a performance indicator. long waiting times prohibit the provision of good services, waste patients’ time, and jeopardise patient satisfaction. therefore, patients' satisfaction from waiting time plays a significant role in quality assurance and management. methods: in this qualitative study,...