BACKGROUND Teaching clinics are the heart of training programs in family practice. It is in these training clinics where residents develop their ambulatory practice habits. Yet, little is known about the efficiency of these teaching clinics. METHODS We conducted a time-and-motion study of patient flow in a residency teaching clinic. RESULTS During each half-day session, 7.8 +/- 1.9 provider...

Military medical practitioners working in active duty clinics are known for seeing lots of people in a short amount of time. If you've ever seen what goes on every morning at a troop medical clinic on a training post or base you know what I mean. The goal of morning sick call is to find that one really sick person among the many not so sick standing in line for your services. What you learn fro...

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Objective. A pilot study to compare the rates of antenatal healthcare use in Birmingham, UK and Pretoria, South Africa, and identify differences in knowledge and perception of antenatal healthcare. Subjects. 62 women, 31 at each location <24 hours after delivery. Results. Women from Birmingham use healthcare services earlier (P ≤ .0001) and more often during pregnancy (P ≤ .0001). Women from Bi...

In December 1984 Mrs Victoria Gillick was the mother of five girls under the age of 16. Four years previously the Department of Health and Social Security in a circular to area health authorities had advised that family planning clinic sessions should be available to everyone irrespective of age: that attempts should be made to persuade children under the age of 16 attending such clinics to inv...

There are few FASD multi-disciplinary diagnostic teams in rural regions of Canada. Families often have difficulty accessing their services because of the lack of clinics available in Canada and the distance rural residents must travel to access one. Since its grass-roots beginning in 1995, the Lakeland Centre for FASD in north eastern Alberta has developed a community-based FASD diagnostic serv...

Large regional health care systems face challenges in planning physician schedules and appointments to achieve patient-access goals and efficient use of resources. We describe the development of a planning and forecasting system that predicts outpatient visits (OPVs) for 23 primary and specialty care clinics at a large medical center in Rochester, Minn. We develop and compare univariate, multiv...

BACKGROUND European results of assisted reproductive techniques from treatments initiated during 2004 are presented in this eighth report. METHODS Data were mainly collected from existing national registers. From 29 countries, 785 clinics reported 367,066 treatment cycles including: IVF (114,672), ICSI (167,192), frozen embryo replacement (FER, 71,997), egg donation (ED, 10 334), preimplantat...