Predicting patient nonappearance for surgery as a scheduling strategy to optimize operating room utilization in a Veterans' Administration Hospital

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 826-834

  Basson, Marc D ^a,b   Butler, Timothy W ^a   Verma, Harish ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAVEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33645640327     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200604000-00029     Document Type: Review

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