BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether planning a dental appointment is a predictor of actual dental visits over a one-year period when controlling for past attendance, demographic factors, and dental health beliefs. In addition, the planning-attendance association was explored to determine whether dental anxiety and educational status moderated this relationship. METHODS...

The development of a dynamic game model for planning a double and duplication of supervision based on the indeterminate appointment probability and order of supervisors on the grounds of the current causes of planning and supervision collusion in real estate land is presented in this paper and the question how to separate the planning from supervision availably is analyzed. The dynamic game is ...

BACKGROUND Access to health services is one of the Batho Pele ('people first') values and principles of the South African government since 1997. This necessitated some changes around public service systems, procedures, attitudes and behaviour. The challenges of providing health care to rural geographically spread populations include variations in socio-economic status, transport opportunities, ...

BACKGROUND Hospitals have expressed no knowledge of patients' opinions regarding diversified appointment registration systems, despite efforts to develop novel appointment registration systems that assist patients and increase hospital efficiency. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the use of diversified appointment registration systems and explore the factors influencing patie...

Specialty clinics provide specialized care for patients referred by primary care physicians, emergency departments, or other specialists. Urgent patients must often be seen on the referral day, while non-urgent referrals are typically booked an appointment for the future. To deliver a balanced performance, the clinics must know how much ‘appointment capacity’ is needed for achieving a reasonabl...

This paper studies the management of a fleet of trucks providing container pickup and delivery service (drayage) to a port with an appointment-based access control system. Responding to growing access congestion and its resultant impacts, many U.S. port terminals have implemented appointment systems, but little is known about the potential impact of such systems on drayage fleet efficiency. To ...