Ultrasound waiting lists: Rational queue or extended capacity? A study of the mechanisms and diverse realities underlying ultrasound waiting lists

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 196-207

  Brasted, Christopher ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Booking; Capacity; Demand; Model; Prioritise; Queue; Rota; Routine; Ultrasound; Urgent; Wait

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 43149108832     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-008-9064-9     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Joseph SK Woo (2002) A short history of the development of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history3.html
2. Martin RM, Sterne JAC, Gunnell D, Ebrahim S, Smith GD, Frankel S (2003) NHS waiting lists and evidence of national or local failure: analysis of health service data. Br Med J 326:188
3. Channer KS (2001) Waiting list management in cardiology: the New Zealand experience. Clin Manage 10:65-71
4. Rachlis MM (2005) Public solutions to health care wait lists. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottowa
5. Foote JL, Houston DJ, North NHE (2002) Betwixt and between: ritual and the management of an ultrasound waiting list. Health Care Anal 10:357-377
6. Kendrick D, Fielding K, Bentley E, Kerslake R, Miller P, Pringle M (2001) Radiography of the lumbar spine in primary care patients with low back pain: randomised controlled trial. Br Med J 322:400-405
7. Savage SL (2003) Decision making with insight. Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning, Belmont
8. Silvester K, Lendon R, Bevan H, Steyn R, Walley P (2004) Reducing waiting times in the NHS: is lack of capacity the problem? Clin Manage 12:105-112
9. Porter ME, Teisberg EO (2006) Redefining healthcare: creating value-based competition on results. Harvard Business School Press, Boston
10. Sandler G (1979) Costs of unnecessary tests. Br Med J 2:21-24
11. Summerton N (2005) Commissioning brief for diagnostics. The National Diagnostics Capacity and Planning Programme/Cumbria and Lancashire SHA/NHS North West, Manchester
12. Vasanawala SS, Desser TS (2005) Accommodation of requests for emergency US and CT: applications of queuing theory to scheduling of urgent studies. Radiology 235:244-249
13. NHS Modernisation Agency (2002) Improvement leaders' quide to process mapping, analysis and redesign. NHS Modernisation Agency, Ipswich
14. NHS Modernisation Agency (2003) Modernising radiology services: a practical guide to redesign. NHS Modernisation Agency, Leicester
15. NHS Modernisation Agency (2003) Radiology: a national framework for service improvement. NHS Modernisation Agency, Leicester
16. Rosenhead J, Mingers J (2001) Rational analysis for a problematic world revisited. Wiley, Chichester
17. Micro analysis and design (2005) Micro Saint Sharp version 2.0. Micro analysis and design, Boulder
18. Schmidt B (2002) Modelling of human behaviour the PECS reference model. Proceedings of 14th European Simulation Symposium, Dresden, Germany
19. Brailsford S, Schmidt B (2003) Towards incorporating human behaviour in models of health care systems: an approach using discrete event simulation. Eur J Operational Res 150:19-31