Reducing non-attendance in outpatient appointments: predictive model development, validation, and clinical assessment

• Main Authors: Damià Valero-Bover (Author), Pedro González (Author), Gerard Carot-Sans (Author), Isaac Cano (Author), Pilar Saura (Author), Pilar Otermin (Author), Celia Garcia (Author), Maria Gálvez (Author), Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva (Author), Jordi Piera-Jiménez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Non-attendance to scheduled hospital outpatient appointments may compromise healthcare resource planning, which ultimately reduces the quality of healthcare provision by delaying assessments and increasing waiting lists. We developed a model for predicting non-attendance and asse...