Determinants of Medical Care Utilization
Failure To Keep Appointments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9104435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold V Hurtado (Kaiser Foundation Hospital, corresponding author), Merwyn R Greenlick (Kaiser Foundation Hospital), Theodore J Colombo (Kaiser Foundation Hospital) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 189-198 |
| Publication date | 1973-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197305000-00002 |
| PMID | 4708206 |
| OpenAlex | W1997807483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This study is an analysis of patient and physician characteristics that are related to failure of patients to keep an appointment in a prepaid, multispecialty group practice. There was a high relationship between the frequency of appointments and the frequency of appointment failures, leading to the conclusion that the probability of failures is relatively equal across appointments. High medical care utilizers, therefore, were most likely to have failures. Demographic and psychosocial patient characteristics, as well as physician characteristics, were of much less significance in determining patient failures to keep appointments. The medically indigent have a significantly higher rate of appointment failures which suggests that studies of appointment failures, when dealing with medically indigent populations, may have limited pertinence to other population groups
Environmental health · Family medicine · Medical care · Medical emergency · Population · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization · Healthcare Policy and Management · Hospital Admissions and Outcomes · Medicine
A physician role typology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 1986 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |