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Capacity Planning For Heterogeneous Patient Populations In Primary Care And Specialty Networks, Prashant Meckoni
Capacity Planning For Heterogeneous Patient Populations In Primary Care And Specialty Networks, Prashant Meckoni
Doctoral Dissertations
Access to primary care has a direct impact on morbidity and mortality, and is strongly influenced by indirect waiting time: the delay between the requested and allotted appointment day. Our models describe the heterogeneous appointment seeking patterns of a primary care patient panel using stochastic processes parameterized to reflect the diversity of primary care visit rates in the US. For capacity planning, we estimate the distribution of daily appointments, and show that the distribution variability can be reduced by heuristics that use patient flexibility regarding the day of the appointment. For delays, we demonstrate that in a first-come, first-served system, …