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A comparison of commercial and custom-made electronic tracking systems to measure patient flow through an ambulatory clinic

BACKGROUND: Understanding how patients move through outpatient clinics is important for optimizing clinic processes. This study compares the costs, benefits, and challenges of two clinically important methods for measuring patient flow: (1) a commercial system using infrared (IR) technology that pas...

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Autores principales: Vakili, Sharif, Pandit, Ravi, Singman, Eric L., Appelbaum, Jeffrey, Boland, Michael V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4625437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26511722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12942-015-0023-7