Rodríguez-García, Miguel; McLean-Carranza, Aldo A.; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 9 (2016) 5, pp. 1107-1118
times. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the data from a US children's hospital, which includes all the …Purpose: Since long waits in hospitals have been found to be related to high rates of no-shows and cancelations … appointments registered during one year of observation. We used the call-appointment interval to establish the wait time to get an …