Temporal Trends in Nonattendence Rate for Scheduled Outpatient Appointments.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 13,823,093
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Describe the behavior over time of the nonattendance proportion in scheduled outpatient medical appointments for in-person medical care over an 8-year period (globally and by subgroups: gender, age, medical specialty, and medical coverage).
研究概览
简要总结
Ecological time-series study using secondary databases.
详细描述
A time-series study will be conducted to evaluate nonattendance over time. The unit of analysis will be the appointment.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Ecologic Or Community
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 0 Years 至 110 Years（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Appointments scheduled for outpatient medical care across all settings and specialties from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2023
排除标准
- •Cancelled appointments, including cancellations made by the patient, medical team, and the appointment management system.
- •Appointments that do not correspond to scheduled in-person care (Teleconsultations,
- •Appointments for walk-in demand).
- •Scheduled appointments that are not for medical care (Health coverage or specialties that do not correspond to scheduled medical care, Appointments for procedures,
- •Appointments for complementary exams, Appointments for treatments such as speech therapy, physiotherapy, or other therapies).
- •Spontaneous overflow appointments where the patient spontaneously presents for care at that moment. These appointments cannot be absent as the present and the appointment are assigned simultaneously.
- •System errors that do not correspond to actual patient medical care appointments (Duplicate cancellations, Appointments where patient and physician coincide).
结局指标
主要结局
Describe the behavior over time of the nonattendance proportion in scheduled outpatient medical appointments for in-person medical care over an 8-year period (globally and by subgroups: gender, age, medical specialty, and medical coverage).
时间窗: 2016 to 2023
Evaluate temporal trends and changes (joinpoints) in the absenteeism proportion in scheduled outpatient medical appointments for in-person medical care over the same period.
时间窗: 2016 to 2023
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
LUCIA.PEREZ
Pediatrician. Non-sponsored research. Research Secretary of the University Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires.
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires