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Failed Appointments

BARRON, WILLIAM M.·1980·Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice
DOI 10.1016/s0095-4543(21)01411-1
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Abstract

Failure to keep appointments is disruptive to the health care delivery system in several ways. Rates of missed appointments in a variety of practice settings demonstrate a significant problem. The patient most likely to fail to keep a given appointment is one who is young, comes from a low socioeconomic group, has a large, unstable family, and has previously broken appointments. In addition, this patient will most likely have no significant ongoing relationship with a single physician, may have been referred from an emergency room, will have been scheduled for his or her appointment at a distant time, may well have forgotten about the appointment or thought it was scheduled for another time, and will feel little sense of urgency about keeping the appointment. Several effective methods to reduce appointment-breaking behavior are discussed. Mailed appointment reminders are both effective and cost-efficient. Improved communication between patient and physician combined with personal interest and attention an produce a positive effect on the appointment-keeping behavior of a patient. Finally, the pragmatic details of appointment scheduling can be altered to reduce the disruptive effect of the missed appointment by such methods as predictive overbooking based on individual patient characteristics, use of the modified wave scheduling technique, and elimination of the automatic reappointing of patients who have previously broken appointments.

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  1. Meller, 1976, The effect of appointment reminders on keeping appointments in a core city pediatric outpatient department, Minn. Med., 59, 625

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Authors
BARRON, W. M.
Affiliations
University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
BARRON, WILLIAM M.
Venue
Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1980-12
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
563-574
ISSN
0095-4543 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0095-4543(21)01411-1
OpenAlex
W44961598
Cited by
152
References
21
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 4
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Keywords
missed appointments, appointment keeping, appointment reminders, patient-physician communication, appointment scheduling, overbooking, socioeconomic factors, healthcare disruption
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Appointments and Schedules, Community Health Centers, Delivery of Health Care, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Compliance, Physician-Patient Relations, Practice Management, Medical, Private Practice, Socioeconomic Factors

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