Even though patients often arrive early and out of turn for scheduled appointments in outpatient clinics, no research … fact stay idle, even in the presence of waiting patients. Our results suggest that the proposed analytical method …

problem with both virtual medicine patients (VM patients) and in-clinic patients (IC patients) in a multi-disciplinary setting …, distinct cost structures and unique care paths in a multi-station network. We establish priority for IC patients and introduce … time windows for VM patients to create flexibility. The problem was motivated by patient appointment scheduling …

Even though patients often arrive early and out of turn for scheduled appointments in outpatient clinics, no research … fact stay idle, even in the presence of waiting patients. Our results suggest that the proposed analytical method …

Clinical trials have traditionally followed a fixed design, in which randomization probabilities of patients to various … treatment effectiveness to dynamically adjust randomization probabilities of patients to various treatments as the trial … progresses. An ideal adaptive design is one where patients are treated as effectively as possible without sacrificing the …

patients. While implementing this strategy, the hospital administrators face the questions of (i) whether it is cost effective … patients in order to provide insights for these questions. In the first phase, by studying the various patient volumes and … arrival patterns based on a data set from a large secondary hospital, we investigate the optimal capacity regarding the number …

deal with cholecystectomy patients. The study aims to assist surgeons and national authorities to optimize their DRG … systems. Methods: National or regional databases were used to identify hospital cases with a procedure of cholecystectomy. DRG …% of cases. Six standardised case vignettes were defined, and quasi prices according to national DRG-based hospital payment …

Home care provides personalized medical care and social support to patients within their own home. Our work proposes a … dynamic scheduling framework to assist in the assignment of patients to health practitioners (HPs) at a single home care … agency. We model the decision of which patients to assign to HPs as a discrete-time Markov decision process. Due to the curse …

Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses for hospitalized patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) poses an economic challenge on … data for hospitalized CLD patients from Bangladesh is scarce. This study aimed to estimate the OOP expenses and resulting … CHE, distress financing and impoverishment among hospitalized patients with CLD. This cross-sectional study was conducted …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …