Predicting patient visits to an urgent care clinic using calendar variables

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 48-53

  Batal, H ^a   Tench, J ^a   McMillan, S ^a   Adams, J ^a   Mehler, P S ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Regression analysis; Utilization; Walk in clinics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MODEL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEATHER;

COLORADO; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FORECASTING; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 0035187334     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00550.x     Document Type: Article

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