normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: urban living and transition of illnesses, today has led hygienic centers for dedicating services to serious challenge management of an outpatient center is very difficult. worse is that the patient advice and service time is much less than waiting time. many people to avoid long waiting go to private treatment ...

background and purpose: preoperative fast is the essential part of preoperative care for those patients who are candidates for elective surgery. fast prolongation results in side effects such as: sweating, irritability, decrease in blood sugar and restlessness. despite the noticeable changes in fasting guidelines and their application in many countries, it seems that in iran, these rules are no...

background and aims: visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. the waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them before implementation ...

in this paper we introduced a new priority rule algorithm in human queues. the suggested method is applicable in human lines with different demands (serving times) for different customers. in this method, the waiting time for each customer is related to the volume of demand. a common example of such a system is a bakery line. the usual priority rule algorithm in this kind of queue is first-in-f...

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...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...