Background Policies assigning low-priority patients treatment delays for care, in order to make room for patients of higher priority arriving later, are common in secondary healthcare services today. Alternatively, each new patient could be granted the first available appointment. We aimed to investigate whether prioritisation can be part of the reason why waiting times for care are often...

This study investigates how prioritisation in health services have influenced speech and language therapy (SLT) services in Scotland in prioritising their caseload. Additionally, it evaluates how current prioritisation systems may contribute towards the development of the SLT service in Malaysia. Health, education and social agencies in Malaysia were contacted and a literature review was conduc...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of using information from circulating biomarkers to inform the prioritisation process of patients with stable angina awaiting coronary artery bypass graft surgery. DESIGN Decision analytical model comparing four prioritisation strategies without biomarkers (no formal prioritisation, two urgency scores, and a risk score) and three...

Decisions concerning prioritisation occur in different moments during software development and can involve different stakeholders. Our research objective is to develop prioritisation processes that meet stakeholders’ needs, and allow obtaining better quality decisions. In this paper we propose a structured approach to model decision-making in real setting with the purpose of eliciting from the ...

Logistics services consist of a complex network of processes where exception management is becoming increasingly critical. During the process of exception management, prioritisation of exceptions is necessary for the efficient use of resources resulting in successful logistics services. Previous efforts in logistics exception management systems have focused primarily on exception handling. Exce...

Requirements prioritisation is a key decision making activity of the software development process, which relies on the capability of different decision-makers to identify the optimal candidate rankings of the requirements, in order to be able to perform a strategic choice among them. In this paper, we formulate such multi-decision-maker requirements prioritisation as a multi-objective optimisat...

Test case prioritisation techniques aim to maximise the chance of fault detection as early in testing as possible. This is most commonly achieved by prioritising the tests according to a surrogate measure that is thought to correspond to fault detection capabilities, such as code coverage. However, once the prioritised test suite indeed detects a fault, the original prioritisation may become ob...

An extension of the General and Rapid Association Study Engine (GRASE), a Semantic Web data (entity) prioritisation engine, is discussed. The GRASE employs a unique mechanism to prioritise entities using entitydocument relations by computing the statistical significance between entities and user keywords based on the number of related documents. We describe an improvement of prioritisation accu...

Background/aims: Prioritising referrals on waiting lists is common practice in rehabilitation. However, little is known about the exact criteria that are used in home-based occupational therapy to determine the level of urgency. This study aimed to identify prioritisation criteria in home-based occupational therapy services in Quebec, Canada and to describe how they are used in practice. Method...