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Who keeps the first outpatient appointment?
Abstract
The authors studied 1,106 consecutive patients who called for an initial outpatient appointment at a medical center department of psychiatry during a one-year period. The 759 (68.6%) patients who kept their initial scheduled appointment differed from the 347 (31.4%) who did not in age, previous psychiatric treatment, source of referral, chief complaint, and number of days they waited for an appointment. A telephone follow-up conducted with almost 30% of those who did not keep their initial appointment revealed that of those contacted, 26 (25%) sought other routes for psychiatric help and 23 (22%) made a subsequent contact at the facility studied.
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“Dropout is more frequent for initial appointments [14].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Carpenter, P. J., Morrow, G. R., Gaudio, A. C. D., & Ritzler, B. A.
- Venue
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 1981-01-01
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 102-105
- ISSN
- 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
- 1535-7228
- OpenAlex
- W117521004
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- missed appointments, outpatient psychiatric care, appointment scheduling, help-seeking, referral sources, waiting time
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Appointments and Schedules, Mental Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Outpatient Clinics, Hospital, Patient Dropouts, Referral and Consultation, Socioeconomic Factors
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