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The total workload of booking appointment, maintaining that, checking patients properly is not possible for the doctor, therefore requirement of assistances is necessary. Sometimes it has been seen that due to an emergency case a doctor misuse his or her time delays a schedule. Extreme emergency cases like fractures, burnings, caesarian cases and others, a delay or drop of earlier appointments can be explainable but for smaller emergency cases the doctor needs to maintain his or her schedule as well as possible. Waiting time of

Delay in Patient Appointment

   

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Running head: DELAY IN PATIENT APPOINTMENT 1Delay in patient AppointmentCarlos R. OrtizOperations and Project ManagementWebster University
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DELAY IN PATIENT APPOINTMENT 2AbstractMaintenance of time for doctors is very important in case of patients. A patient always look to beseen at the right time of their appointment. Realistic booking of appointment is also required for proper follow up of the procedure as it sets up the appointment schedule. For proper checkup, a patient must be given a specific amount time and sufficient space for examination. The total workload of booking appointment, maintaining that, checking patients properly is not possible for the doctor, therefore requirement of assistances is necessary. Therefore, healthcare organizations consists other staffs like assistants and receptionists for these kind of tasks. Often patients have been asked to come earlier because of the additional time taken for paperwork and other healthcare measurements like weighing and others. Sometimes it has been seen that due to an emergency case a doctor misuse his or her time delays a schedule. This is a significant problem in medical treatment and cab be solved by developing a flexible system for adjustment of emergency cases in the time schedule. Extreme emergency cases like fractures, burnings, caesarian cases and others, a delay or drop of earlier appointments can be explainable but for smaller emergency cases the doctor needs to maintain his or her schedule as well as possible. A few opened slots for possible emergency cases can solve this problem of emergency. In case small emergencies doctors have the chance to maintain their original schedule but for severe cases delay of any appointment is inevitable. Therefore, the patient must be given fare compensation like rescheduling the appointment or wait for a little longer, so the doctor can come after he or she finishes looking after the emergency cases.
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DELAY IN PATIENT APPOINTMENT 4IntroductionAppointment delays in medical treatment is a growing problems a now a days. In America this problem has grown to an optimum level. Some cases it has been noticed that an appointment has been delayed by near about 50 days. Hospital emergency rooms have worse scenarios regarding this case than office of a provider but in everywhere patients are suffering from these appointment delays. Reduce in government funding is seen as a reason for this supply and demand problem in various healthcare sectors. Provider offices are closing and workload of hospitals are increasing, not equivalently with their productivity.Waiting time of a patient increases due to some reasons like delay in schedule of providers as they have to manage the situation by allowing most the patients to be seen to generate maximum possible revenue. This is the basic target of many provides, which is to generate a good revenue for the organization without keeping the track of patient satisfaction (Lim et al., 2012). This situation develops discontent among the patients and patients tend to find a new provider. The management of scheduled patients with the walk-in-emergency patients is one of the issues which causes discontent among the patients. Sometimes patients feel that they are being given less importance than the patients came with emergencies. Objectives of provider office varies as some select the revenue as their chief goal and some select patient care and satisfaction (Hall, 2013). Scheduling individually, block scheduling and improvised block scheduling are the three different mode of scheduling techniques that are used in healthcare system of U.S.A. Scheduling individually is the technique where an individual patient is registered for certain amount for checkup. This time limit is deduced on the basis of his or her problem and the time required for treatment. When a patient is served on the basis of first come first served (Tatham & Murdoch,
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