The "no-show" problem in healthcare refers to the prevalent phenomenon where patients schedule appointments with healthcare providers but fail to attend them without prior cancellation or rescheduling. In addressing this issue, our study delves into ...
BACKGROUND: Primary health care (PHC) services face operational challenges due to high patient volumes, leading to complex management needs. Patients access services through booked appointments and walk-in visits, with walk-in visits often facing lon...
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
May 17, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Women's attendance to cervical cancer screening (CCS) is a major concern for healthcare providers in community. This study aims to use the various algorithms that can accurately predict the most barriers of women for nonattendance to CS.
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Oct 22, 2021
Public health and its related facilities are crucial for thriving cities and societies. The optimum utilization of health resources saves money and time, but above all, it saves precious lives. It has become even more evident in the present as the pa...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Patient "no-shows" are missed appointments resulting in clinical inefficiencies, revenue loss, and discontinuity of care. Using secondary electronic health record (EHR) data, we used machine learning to predict patient no-shows in follow-up and new p...
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
Sep 9, 2020
Outpatient appointment no-shows are a common problem. Artificial intelligence predictive analytics can potentially facilitate targeted interventions to improve efficiency. We describe a quality improvement project that uses machine learning techniqu...
BACKGROUND: No-shows, a major issue for healthcare centers, can be quite costly and disruptive. Capacity is wasted and expensive resources are underutilized. Numerous studies have shown that reducing uncancelled missed appointments can have a tremend...
Journal of diabetes science and technology
May 3, 2016
BACKGROUND: About 10% of patients with diabetes discontinue treatment, resulting in the progression of diabetes-related complications and reduced quality of life.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Patients who do not show up for scheduled appointments are a considerable cost and concern in healthcare. In this study, we predict patient no-shows for outpatient surgery at the endoscopy ward of a hospital in Denmark. The predictions are made by tr...
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