ReviewHealth systems (Basingstoke, England)2023
Wait!What does that mean?: Eliminating ambiguity of delays in healthcare from an OR/MS perspective.
Review in Health systems (Basingstoke, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Combined Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation for Healthcare Process Optimization: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Beyond the Queue: Exploring Waiting Practices in the Stories of Patients With Breast Cancer.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Toward a roadmap for sustainable lean adoption in hospitals: a Delphi study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Staff pooling in healthcare systems - results from a mixed-methods study.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Waiting time in healthcare is a significant problem that occurs across the world and often has catastrophic effects. There are various terms used for waiting time ("sojourn", "throughput" etc.) and there is no consensus on how these terms are defined. Ambiguous definitions of waiting time make it difficult to compare and measure the problems related to waiting times and delays in healthcare. We present a systematic search and review of the Operations Research and Management Science (ORMS) literature on delays in healthcare services. We search for articles from 2004 to 2019 and base our search strategy on a well-known healthcare planning and control decision taxonomy. An important step towards reducing the ambiguity in the definitions is to distinguish between
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