Causes of long wait time in health consultation services and strategies to reduce them: an observational study in rural Haiti
Background: WHO data show that wait times for clinic patients globally vary between 30 min and 2 h, but at Saint Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, wait times range between 3 h and 8 h. Wait times are important to health-care delivery since patients lose days of work and urgent cases can b...
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Main Authors: | Jude Altema, MD (Author), Kenide Bien-Aime, RN (Author), Marie Carine Roger, RN (Author), Wendell Blaise, MD (Author) |
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2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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