Effect of an Online Appointment Scheduling System on Evaluation Metrics of Outpatient Scheduling System: a before-after MulticenterStudy.
Online appointment scheduling systems have been designed in response to the problems of the traditional ones. In Iran, most outpatient clinics and our study population suffer from high patient' no-show rate and long waiting times because of not using online appointment scheduling system. In this stu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 43; no. 8 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial forms pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=137490042&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 137490042 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01485598 4N0 jtl: Journal of Medical Systems issn: 01485598 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2019 vid: 43 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 137490042 137490042 137490042 10.1007/s10916-019-1383-5 137490042 ppct: 1 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Effect of an Online Appointment Scheduling System on Evaluation Metrics of Outpatient Scheduling System: a before-after MulticenterStudy. aug: au: Habibi, Mohammad Reza Mazaheri Mohammadabadi, Fahimeh Tabesh, Hamed Vakili-Arki, Hasan Abu-Hanna, Ameen Eslami, Saeid affil: Department of Health Information Technology, Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran sug: subj: Appointments and Schedules Methods Online Systems Outpatient Service Administration Appointments and Schedules Evaluation Human Multicenter Studies Iran Pretest-Posttest Design Outpatients Comparative Studies Pilot Studies Checklists Funding Source Waiting Lists Descriptive Statistics Patient Education Data Analysis Software Confidence Intervals Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test Clinical Trials ab: Online appointment scheduling systems have been designed in response to the problems of the traditional ones. In Iran, most outpatient clinics and our study population suffer from high patient' no-show rate and long waiting times because of not using online appointment scheduling system. In this study, the effect of an online appointment scheduling system was investigated by comparing the evaluation metrics of appointment scheduling before and after the intervention. This before-after pilot study was conducted on ten outpatient clinics with different specializations. Five clinics were selected as the intervention group and five clinics as the control group. A checklist was designed to evaluate appointment scheduling metrics. These checklists were completed from April to July 2017 in the pre-implementation phase and from September to December 2017 in the post-implementation phase. The evaluation metrics were evaluated before and after the implementation of the online appointment scheduling system. A total of 470 checklists containing 9034 patients' information and 460 checklists containing 9130 patients' information were completed at the pre- and post-implementation phases, respectively. There were significant positive effect on the improvement of the three metrics means, including Patient waiting time (38.2 min before vs. 23.8 min after the intervention), No-show rate (25% before vs. 11% after the intervention), and Physician punctuality (−30 min before vs. -14.2 min after the intervention). The use of an online appointment scheduling system was successful in improving several evaluation metrics in our target population and resulted in continued usage in intervention group clinics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: clinical trial forms pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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