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No-show appointments waste resources and decrease the sustainability of care. This study is an attempt to evaluate patient no-shows based on modes of appointment-making and types of appointments. We collected hospital information system data and appo...

The uncertainty of the arrival time of trucks has increased the complexity of terminal operations. The truck appointment system (TAS) cannot respond to this problem in time, which can easily cause appointment invalidation and reduce the efficiency of...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of truck appointment scheduling models and algorithms that support truck appointment systems (TASs) at container terminals. TASs have become essential tools for minimizing congestion, reducing wait times, an...

In the face of an increasingly high-demand environment for outpatients, achieving a balance between allocation of limited medical resources and patient satisfaction has considerable social and economic benefits. Therefore, appointment scheduling (AS)...

Background: In the Internet era, many web-based appointment systems for hospitals have been established to replace traditional systems. Our study aimed to highlight the features of online appointment systems for hospitals in Taiwan, where patients ca...

Background/Objectives: Appointment planning in physical therapy (PT) is crucial for optimizing patient outcomes and resource efficiency, yet determinants of these plans and deviations from them remain underexplored. This study aimed to explore how ph...

Background: Missed primary care appointments disrupt continuity, reduce care quality, and increase healthcare costs. Despite numerous studies, global patterns and predictors of appointment non-adherence remain inconsistently reported. Objective: To i...

Due to increased container traffic, the problems of congestion at terminal gates generate serious air pollution and decrease terminal efficiency. To address this issue, many terminals are implementing a truck appointment system (TAS) based on several...

Aiming at the truck scheduling problem between the outer yard and multi-terminals, the appointment optimization model of truck is established. In this model, the queue time and the operation time of truck during the appointment period of different te...

Background: This study aims to determine the rate of inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs) in a cohort of initial referrals and the efficacy of prioritising appointments to the early arthritis clinic (EAC) based on symptom duration. Methods: In the...

Background: Random truck arrivals at maritime container terminals are one of the primary reasons for gate congestion. Gate congestion negatively affects the terminal’s and drayage firms’ productivity and the surrounding communities in ter...

Background: Hospital appointment systems suffer from extended patient waits, manual interventions, and suboptimal resource allocation, reducing satisfaction and efficiency. Methods: This study develops IPAS using Business Process Analysis (BPA), Biza...

The intelligent smart assistants are becoming more interactive and helpful for everyday tasks. The Amazon Echo has potential for advanced voice interactions and as a tool for conducting complex tasks. The potential of the Amazon Echo in the area of b...

Educational leaders in the 21st century are under increasing pressure since they need to consistently upskill and reskill themselves so that they can adapt to rapid changes and be prepared to improve the quality of future education, as well as meet t...

Online medical team is an emerging online medical model in which patients can choose a doctor to register and consult. A doctor’s reputation cannot be ignored. It is worth studying how that online reputation affects the focal doctor’s app...

Background: Patient no-show behavior is a critical factor complicating hospital resource optimization and causing waste. The inefficiency caused by patients’ no-shows and the resulting increased operating costs negatively affect the hospitals&r...

Appointment-based lock scheduling can mitigate congestion at inland ship locks, but the inherent uncertainty in vessel arrivals frequently causes severe schedule degradation, disrupting the original lockage plans. To address this challenge, we develo...

Background/Objectives: Patient non-attendance disrupts dental scheduling and may leave reserved appointment time unused when missed slots cannot be reassigned. Most no-show prediction studies focus on discrimination or the number of missed appointmen...

Patient unpunctuality substantially complicates appointment scheduling in integrated telemedicine–traditional outpatient systems. The current research frequently ignores behavioral distinctions between telemedicine patients and outpatients, whi...

Gate and yard congestion is a typical type of container port congestion, which prevents trucks from traveling freely and has become the bottleneck that constrains the port productivity. In addition, urban traffic increases the uncertainty of the truc...

This study examined patient unpunctuality’s effect on patient appointment scheduling in the ultrasound department of a hospital. The study created a simulation system incorporating the formulated F3 distribution to describe patient unpunctualit...

Background: Increased maritime trade has led to a surge in drayage operations, causing congestion and environmental issues in port areas. Truck Appointment Systems (TASs) are commonly used to manage truck arrival rates, yet transparency and equity in...

In medical consultations, the length of the visit has a significant impact on the quality of care. It is significantly associated with a better quality of treatment and better health outcomes. In this study, we analyzed doctors’ consultation length w...

Employee compensation is an often-neglected but essential part of corporate social responsibility which emphasizes caring for the needs of all stakeholders, including employees. In order to address pressure from stakeholders to strengthen prosocial a...

In this study, we draw on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model and career stage theory to examine how faculty appointment type is linked to research satisfaction in China’s dual-track academic system. Survey data from 359 faculty members at t...

Compared to other appointment methods in public hospitals, registering through the Internet or utilizing e-appointments, or registering online as an outpatient, can provide more information to the user. This research investigated the integration of u...

The implementation of the truck appointment system (TAS) in various ports shows that it can effectively reduce congestion and enhance resource utilization. However, uncertain factors such as traffic and weather conditions usually prevent the external...

Despite the number of sailings canceled in the past few months, as demand has increased, the utilization of ships has become very high, resulting in sudden peaks of activity at the import container terminals. Ship-to-ship operations and yard activity...

Objectives: There is ongoing concern that psychiatric medication management appointments add little value to care. The present study attempted to address this concern by capturing depressed patients’ views and opinions about the value of psychiatric...

Appointment-based medication synchronization (ABMS) programs have been associated with increased adherence and persistence to chronic medications. Adherence to statin therapy, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin receptor blo...

This study investigates patient appointment scheduling and examination room assignment problems involving patients who undergo ultrasound examination with considerations of multiple examination rooms, multiple types of patients, multiple body parts t...

Background: Despite ongoing advances in digital technology and e-health, older adults are sometimes excluded from technological innovations. These challenges are evident in the use of digital health platforms. Objective: To explore perceptions of onl...

Environmental governance is one of the priority tasks that is faced by China in its drive for sustainable social development. Environmental protection necessitates an equal focus on pollution-source control and pollution governance, and it shall be s...

Background: Container terminals (CTs) have constantly administered truck appointment systems (TASs) to effectively accomplish the planning and scheduling of drayage operations. However, since the operations in the gate and yard area of a CT are stoch...

Outpatient care facilities combine high patient turnover, repeated short contacts, accompanying persons, clinically vulnerable subgroups, and healthcare-worker movement across functional zones. This study develops a synthetic dynamic contact-network...

Empirical studies indicate a wide range of missed appointments in psychiatry, from 12 to 60%.A survey was undertaken in the outpatient psychiatric facilities of the Clinic for Adult Psychiatry of the Geneva University Hospitals over a one-month perio...

Pediatric patients with untreated tuberculosis infection (TBI), also called latent TBI, are at risk of progression to active TB disease. The primary aim of this study was to identify factors associated with higher rates of missed appointments and fai...

Over the past century, nearly two hundred times a governor has appointed an individual to fill a vacant Senate seat. This research seeks to understand the electoral fates of these appointed senators. First, I address the question of when and under wh...

Background/Objectives: Regular follow-up treatment is important for the management of diabetes and to reduce the risk of complications. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the proportion of adult diabetic patients who miss appointments, in addition t...

No-show appointments in healthcare is a problem faced by medical centers around the world, and understanding the factors associated with no-show behavior is essential. In recent decades, artificial intelligence has taken place in the medical field an...

The quality and experience of healthcare systems affect the economy and prosperity of cities all over the world. Governments of several countries are struggling to improve the efficiency of their healthcare systems and decrease healthcare spending co...

This paper introduces an adaptive prescribed performance control (PPC) methodology designed to achieve appointed-time stabilization for morphing aircraft. The proposed approach ensures accurate attitude tracking despite challenges posed by time-varyi...

Healthcare institutions generally use an appointment system. However, patients often need to receive medical services unexpectedly. If they visit a clinic without an appointment, they may have to wait for a long time, as their priority is low. In thi...

Background/Objectives: Missed outpatient appointments contribute to care discontinuity and emergency department (ED) overcrowding. This study investigated the association between missed appointments and ED visits, identifying predictors such as patie...

One of the key arguments in favor of digitally produced complete dentures (CDs) is the requirement for less patient visits in comparison to the conventional workflow. However, it is not yet clear if this argument is accurate; nor, if indeed the inser...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of hospital visits and attendance at scheduled appointments have dropped significantly. We used the health belief model (in three dimensions) to examine the determinants of non-attendance of scheduled appointm...

Background/Objectives: Nonattendance at healthcare appointments remains a major challenge, particularly in chronic diseases like diabetes. Dietary therapy is essential in diabetes care, yet nonattendance at dietitian appointments persists. This study...

This paper develops a totally new appointed-time integral barrier Lyapunov function-based trajectory tracking algorithm for a hovercraft in the presence of multiple performance constraints and model uncertainties. Firstly, an appointed-time performan...

Attending appointments is vital for children with special needs, as such appointments involve long-term interdisciplinary care to ensure continuity of care and improve health and well-being. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of mis...

The growing prominence of global warming has led to a worldwide consensus on the need to reduce carbon emissions. Employing a sample of private industrial enterprises listed on the Chinese stock market from 2008 to 2021, this study explores the effec...