Appointment scheduling systems are used by primary and specialty care clinics to manage
access to service providers, as well as by hospitals to schedule elective surgeries. Many …

Background Missed GP appointments have considerable time and cost implications for
healthcare services. Aim This systematic review aims to explore the rate of missed primary …

Background Precisely defining the different applications of patient-reported outcome
measures (PROs) in clinical practice can be difficult. This is because the intervention is …

Patients miss about 20% of scheduled appointments for mental health treatment, almost
twice the rate in other medical specialties. Up to 50% of patients who miss appointments …

BACKGROUND: Patients who do not keep physician appointments (no-shows) represent a
significant loss to healthcare providers. For patients, the cost includes their dissatisfaction …

Abstract Background Despite Canada's universal healthcare system, significant barriers
impede individuals experiencing homelessness from accessing health services …

Objectives: To compare patient satisfaction between telemedicine and in-person follow-up
appointments for orthopedic trauma. Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial (pilot …

'No-shows' or missed appointments result in under-utilized clinic capacity. We develop a
logistic regression model using electronic medical records to estimate patients' no-show …

Patients' no-shows, scheduled but unattended medical appointments, have a direct negative
impact on patients' health, due to discontinuity of treatment and late presentation to care …

Problem definition: Machine learning is often employed in appointment scheduling to
identify the patients with the greatest no-show risk, so as to schedule them into or right after …