Appointment scheduling rules are used to determine when a customer is receive service during session. In general, appointment do not consider the sequencing of individual customers, but provide simple guidelines on how assign times set (arriving) customers. Many exist and being in practice (e.g., healthcare legal services). Which rule best, however, still an open question. order answer this que...

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OBJECTIVE To determine the missed appointment rate and evaluate the factors related to appointment adherence in adolescent patients, based on the patients' characters and services provided. MATERIAL AND METHOD All medical records in adolescent clinic at Siriraj Hospital between 2004 and 2009 were reviewed Patients that visited the clinic at least twice with the follow-up visit order were recr...

BACKGROUND Inadequate access to their primary care physician remains a major reason for patient dissatisfaction in ambulatory care. The concept of open-access appointment scheduling has been found to accommodate patients' urgent health care needs while providing continuous, routine care. We describe the development of a demand prediction grid for future appointments, compare it with one develop...

Observing that patients with longer appointment delays tend to have higher no-show rates, many providers place a limit on how far into the future that an appointment can be scheduled. This paper studies how the choice of appointment scheduling window affects a provider’s operational efficiency. We use a single server queue to model the registered appointments in a provider’s work schedule, and ...

The death of Dr. C. A. H. Gee, on 7th April, at the age of sixty-one, is a loss to Bristol that will be very keenly felt. He was an old student at the Bristol General Hospital, and after holding a resident appointment there, he commenced practice at Evercreech, Somerset. The war found him a very busy and active practitioner, but the claims of service in the field he found irresistible, and as s...