Investigation of treatment delay in a complex healthcare process using physician insurance claims data: an application to symptomatic carotid artery stenosis

• Main Authors: Stephen Christopher van Gaal (Author), Arshia Alimohammadi (Author), Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (Author), Wei Zhang (Author), Jason Sutherland (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Delays in diagnostic and therapeutic processes are a potentially preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Process improvement depends on accurate knowledge about as-is processes, historically collected from front-line workers and summarized in flowcharts. Such flowcharts can...