Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

patients' potential balking is considered. However, existing literature studying the two-tier healthcare market often …Recently, public and private providers within two-tier healthcare markets have engaged in a fierce competition for … patients, which is significantly influenced by patients' multifaceted sensitivities to delays and payments, particularly when …

Background Forecasting patient arrivals to hospital emergency departments is critical to dealing with surges and to … efcient planning, management and functioning of hospital emerency departments. Objective We explore whether past mean values …

-urgent. The primary objective is to assess the ChatGPT model's capacity to aid in the automation and digitalisation of healthcare … processes, thereby alleviating the workload on healthcare professionals. The study employed a unique approach by presenting … patient cases to the GPT and categorising the conditions based on urgency. In collaboration with an experienced hospital …

, and their extent, is crucial for understanding how hospital network dynamics affect healthcare delivery efficiency and … estimate a hospital-specific index for waiting times. This index served as the dependent variable in our analysis. We applied a … findings suggest that diversifying the organization of the NHS hospital network, particularly through contracts with private …

sequences of ward stays and treatments to be performed during a patient’s hospitalization under consideration of all relevant … all CP-related constraints is automatically extracted from standardized hospital billing data available in every German … hospital. The approach uses a flexible multi-criteria objective function considering several patient- and hospital …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

of artificial intelligence, wearables and internet of things-based healthcare. Yet, this digital transformation carries … healthcare settings reported in several European languages over one year. We focused on cyber incidents with reported impact to … patients' health by using selected combinations of keywords and appropriate exclusion criteria. We retrieved 21 cyber incidents …

severely injured patients. A novel aspect of the modeling approach is the inclusion of patient transfers from Level III … surge of trauma patients can overwhelm local trauma center capacity. As a result, we introduce a mass casualty incident … results highlight the importance of relocating air ambulances for increasing the number of patients transported directly to a …