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...

abstract background: hospital emergency ward plays a pivotal role in hospital and health care system regarding necessity of immediate,qualicative and effective performance due to numerous and complicated processes happens in the emergency ward. qfd is one of the most effective methods used for designing and improving the quality in order to fulfill customers' expectations and improve their...

In this paper we analyse the operating room planning at a department of orthopaedic surgery in Sweden. We focus on the problem of meeting the uncertainty in demand of patient arrival and surgery duration and at the same time maximizing the utilization of operating room (OR) time. With a discrete-event model we simulate how different management polices affect different performance metrics such a...

Background: Waiting time in emergency department is a key indicator in measuring the quality of hospital services and has a significant impact on patient satisfaction The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the patients' waiting time in hospital emergency departments in Iran. Methods: Data were collected from databases of Web of Science, Embase, PubMed,...

BACKGROUND Prolonged waiting time is a source of patient dissatisfaction with health care and is negatively associated with patient satisfaction. Prolonged waiting times in many district hospitals result in many dissatisfied patients, overworked and frustrated staff, and poor quality of care because of the perceived increased workload. AIM The aim of the study was to determine the impact of L...

Background Outpatient manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is a safe and equally effective alternative to electric vacuum aspiration (EVA) in the operating room. This project was conducted to determine whether outpatient MVA expedites care while maintaining patient satisfaction. Methods A cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of patients undergoing surgical management of spontaneous abortio...

We derive the waiting time in a queueing scheme, which an arriving job can be denied service with probability relative to queue size. Such scheme is generalization of tail-drop queue, when buffer (waiting room) full, and found computer networking, call centers other everyday life applications systems. To make model very general, we use arrival process enables shaping arbitrary interarrival dist...

3. You attend to a young male patient who has sustained a head injury during an alleged assault. He is self-ventilating and haemodynamically stable, but is agitated with a reduced Glasgow coma score, and will require intubation prior to CT scan of his head. His mother is in the relatives’ room waiting for a progress update. The nurse helping you suggests you could get consent from his mother be...