practice appointment rates could have a significant impact on national health care costs and services offered by doctors. in this respect a study was designed to determine the relationship between practice appointments and possible predictors in high-risk asthmatics. an observational retrospective analysis of the predictors for the practice appointments in asthmatic patients with at least one h...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact on breastfeeding sustained beyond two months of the "Seventeen Steps" breastfeeding maintenance program consisting of seventeen strategies used to promote, support and protect breastfeeding and implemented for ten months at a medical center. METHODS Nonrandomized clinical trial, involving 147 children born between 01/01/99 and 31/12/2001, who had attended th...

NAN LIU: Appointment Scheduling in Health Care (Under the direction of Professor Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni and Professor Serhan Ziya) We propose two complementary approaches to the scheduling of outpatient appointments. The first approach is to dynamically assign appointment times depending on the continuously updated patient schedule. The second approach is to statically design the system by eithe...

After reading this article, the reader should be able to: • describe requirements that would lead to success with immediate implant placement and loading. • describe important surgical considerations to increase the survival of immediate implant restoration. • discuss advantages in the single appointment fabrication of computer-assisted designed and machined porcelain for implant restoration. •...

BACKGROUND There is little published research into the impact, on both doctor and patient, of handing over responsibility for choosing appointment length to the patient. AIM To investigate what impact giving patients control of their appointment length has on the patient and doctor experience. DESIGN AND SETTING A qualitative study in a single medical practice in Inverness, Scotland. METH...