In current clinical practice, priority-specific wait time targets are usually determined based on the consensus of medical specialists and health care administrators. The rationale behind this approach considers urgency but it does not consider efficient use resources patient volume associated with each priority class. we present here aims to determine in a systematic fashion that both respects...

BACKGROUND Long wait time interval in emergency department (ED) of hospitals, from the patients' point of view in ED is a major problem causing patients' dissatisfaction and may result increasing in patient morbidity and indirectly nurses dissatisfaction. Evaluation of wait time intervals in ED and giving nursing feedback may improve the quality of services, as well as patient satisfaction. The...

BACKGROUND Our objective is to highlight discrepancies between actual wait times and perceived appropriate wait times for various thyroid pathologies among Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgeons in Canada; and to identify specific diagnoses/pathologies where wait times could be improved. METHODS A questionnaire was distributed to all practicing CSO-HNS members. Questions focused on actual wait...

BACKGROUND This study set out to identify patterns in the causes of waits and wait-related satisfaction. METHODS We conducted qualitative interviews with urban, semi-urban, and rural patients (n = 60) to explore their perceptions of the waits they experienced in the detection and treatment of their breast, prostate, lung, or colorectal cancer. We asked participants to describe their experienc...

We present the first wait-free utility accrual (UA) real-time scheduling algorithms for embedded real-time systems. UA scheduling algorithms allow application activities to be subject to time/utility function (TUF) time constraints, and optimize criteria such as maximizing the sum of the activities’ attained utilities. We present UA algorithms that use wait-free synchronization for mutually exc...