Predictors of failed attendances in a multi-specialty outpatient centre using electronic databases

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lee, Vernon J ^a   Earnest, Arul ^a   Chen, Mark I ^a   Krishnan, Bala ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROBABILITY; RISK; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROBABILITY; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 24044470333     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-5-51     Document Type: Article

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