Objective:Analyze the research hotspots and frontiers of shared outpatient service,and provide a reference for researchers in this field to carry out follow-up research.Methods:Search the Web of Science core collectio...Objective:Analyze the research hotspots and frontiers of shared outpatient service,and provide a reference for researchers in this field to carry out follow-up research.Methods:Search the Web of Science core collection database until 2022 and visually analyzekeywords in this field through CiteSpace5.8.R3 software,Results:A total of 261 iteratures were included.The research focuses mainly on advanced care planning,diabetes care,andgroup prenatal care,The research trend tends to be telemedicine and nursing provided by specialized nurses.Conclusion:Scholars can learn from the research hotspots of foreign shared medical appointments,pay attention to the research trend,expand its application scope in combination with China's national conditions,and further promote thedevelopment of shared medical appointments in China.展开更多
An appointment scheduling problem is studied with the consideration of customer impatience.On the assumption that both the time of leaving queue and the time of service are exponentially distributed,in order to minimi...An appointment scheduling problem is studied with the consideration of customer impatience.On the assumption that both the time of leaving queue and the time of service are exponentially distributed,in order to minimize the joint cost,the optimal appointment schedule of the fixed number of customers is studied.The joint cost function is composed of customers expected delay time and service availability time.The expected delay time of each customer in the queue is recursively computed in terms of customer interarrival time.Furthermore,the effect of impatience on the optimal schedule as well as the total operating cost is studied.The results show that as the impatience rate increases,the optimal interarrival time becomes shorter and the interarrival time of the last few customers gradually approaches that of the customers in the middle.In addition,impatient behaviors can increase the joint cost.展开更多
Clinic Appointment Registration System is an important way to see a doctor, and it’s also a preliminary tool for storage and management of clinic medical records. This new system was developed using Visual Studio 200...Clinic Appointment Registration System is an important way to see a doctor, and it’s also a preliminary tool for storage and management of clinic medical records. This new system was developed using Visual Studio 2008 and C#.NET as the development environment and tools and Microsoft Access 2003 as the database to store the medical data based on Browse/Server (B/S) model. The system consists of several data operation functions including appointment registration, data management (e.g. addition, deletion and searching), data backup and recovery, etc., thus, achieve key research ob-jectives.展开更多
We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Xue-Long JIANG to serve as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for Zoological Research (ZR), effective from 1 March, 2016. Dr. JIANG, Professor and principle invest...We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Xue-Long JIANG to serve as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for Zoological Research (ZR), effective from 1 March, 2016. Dr. JIANG, Professor and principle investigator from the Laboratory of Mammal Ecology and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has worked with ZR since 2006 as a member of the editorial board and has played an active and important role in maintaining ZR as a respected academic publishing platform. Currently, he also works as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Acta Thefiologica Sinica, Mammal Research and as a senior editorial board member of Biodiversity Science.展开更多
We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Wai-Yee Chan, Professor and Director of School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to serve as the Associate Editor- in-Chief for Zoolo...We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Wai-Yee Chan, Professor and Director of School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to serve as the Associate Editor- in-Chief for Zoological Research (ZR), effective 1 September, 2016.展开更多
Suppose a practical scene that when two or more parties want to schedule anappointment, they need to share their calendars with each other in order to make itpossible. According to the present result the whole communi...Suppose a practical scene that when two or more parties want to schedule anappointment, they need to share their calendars with each other in order to make itpossible. According to the present result the whole communication cost to solve thisproblem should be their calendars’ length by using a classical algorithm. In this work, weinvestigate the appointment schedule issue made by N users and try to accomplish it inquantum information case. Our study shows that the total communication cost will bequadratic times smaller than the conventional case if we apply a quantum algorithm in theappointment-scheduling problem.展开更多
Background:Missed clinic appointments negatively impact clinic patient flow and health outcomes of people living with HIV(PLHIV).PLHIV likelihood of missing clinic appointments is associated with direct and indirect e...Background:Missed clinic appointments negatively impact clinic patient flow and health outcomes of people living with HIV(PLHIV).PLHIV likelihood of missing clinic appointments is associated with direct and indirect expenditures made while accessing HIV care.The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between out-of-pocket(OOP)health expenditures and the likelihood of missing appointments.Method:Totally 618 PLHIV older than 18 years attending two HIV care and treatment centres(CTC)in Northern Tanzania were enrolled in the study.Clinic attendance and clinical characteristics were abstracted from medical records.Information on OOP health expenditures,demographics,and socio-economic factors were self-reported by the participants.We used a hurdle model.The first part of the hurdle model assessed the marginal effect of a one Tanzanian Shillings(TZS)increase in OOP health expenditure on the probability of having a missed appointment and the second part assessed the probability of having missed appointments for those who had missed an appointment over the study period.Results:Among these 618 participants,242(39%)had at least one missed clinic appointment in the past year.OOP expenditure was not significantly associated with the number of missed clinic appointments.The median amount of OOP paid was 5100 TZS per visit,about 7%of the median monthly income.Participants who were separated from their partners(adjusted odds ratio[AOR]=1.83,95%confidence interval[CZ]:1.11-8.03)and those aged above 50 years(AOR=2.85,95%CI:1.01-8.03)were significantly associated with missing an appointment.For those who had at least one missed appointment over the study period,the probability of missing a clinic appointment was significantly associated with seeking care in a public CTC(P=0.49,95%CI:0.88-0.09)and aged between>25-35 years(P=0.90,95%CI:0.11-1.69).Conclusion:Interventions focused on improving compliance to clinic appointments should target public CTCs,PLHIV aged between>25-35 years,above 50 years of age and those who are separated from their partners.展开更多
In clinic's appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the op...In clinic's appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the opposite of no-show problem. In this work we revisit a walk-in admitting based approach to mitigate the bad influence of no-show without overbooking. First we establish a model which utilizes marginal benefit objective function to balance the interests of the clinic, the patient and the doctor, we prove that no-show and walk-in cancels out each other straightly has a bad property. Then we propose a new rule which is an extension of the well-known Bailey - Welch rule, the simulation results show that our rule has an improvement comparing with the common rule that cancels them out straightly.展开更多
This paper addresses a geometric control algorithm for the attitude tracking problem of the rigid spacecraft modeled on SO(3).Considering the topological and geometric properties of SO(3),we introduced a smooth positi...This paper addresses a geometric control algorithm for the attitude tracking problem of the rigid spacecraft modeled on SO(3).Considering the topological and geometric properties of SO(3),we introduced a smooth positive attitude error function to convert the attitude tracking issue on SO(3)into the stabilization counterpart on its Lie algebra.The error transformation technique was further utilized to ensure the assigned transient and steady state performance of the attitude tracking error with the aid of a well⁃designed assigned⁃time performance function.Then,using the actor⁃critic(AC)neural architecture,an adaptive reinforcement learning approximator was constructed,in which the actor neural network(NN)was utilized to approximate the unknown nonlinearity online.A critic function was introduced to tune the next phase of the actor neural network operation for performance improvement via supervising the system performance.A rigorous stability analysis was presented to show that the assigned system performance can be achieved.Finally,the effectiveness and feasibility of the constructed control strategy was verified by the numerical simulation.展开更多
文摘Objective:Analyze the research hotspots and frontiers of shared outpatient service,and provide a reference for researchers in this field to carry out follow-up research.Methods:Search the Web of Science core collection database until 2022 and visually analyzekeywords in this field through CiteSpace5.8.R3 software,Results:A total of 261 iteratures were included.The research focuses mainly on advanced care planning,diabetes care,andgroup prenatal care,The research trend tends to be telemedicine and nursing provided by specialized nurses.Conclusion:Scholars can learn from the research hotspots of foreign shared medical appointments,pay attention to the research trend,expand its application scope in combination with China's national conditions,and further promote thedevelopment of shared medical appointments in China.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71671036)the Scientific Innovation Research of Graduate Students in Jiangsu Province(No.KYLX_0211)
文摘An appointment scheduling problem is studied with the consideration of customer impatience.On the assumption that both the time of leaving queue and the time of service are exponentially distributed,in order to minimize the joint cost,the optimal appointment schedule of the fixed number of customers is studied.The joint cost function is composed of customers expected delay time and service availability time.The expected delay time of each customer in the queue is recursively computed in terms of customer interarrival time.Furthermore,the effect of impatience on the optimal schedule as well as the total operating cost is studied.The results show that as the impatience rate increases,the optimal interarrival time becomes shorter and the interarrival time of the last few customers gradually approaches that of the customers in the middle.In addition,impatient behaviors can increase the joint cost.
文摘Clinic Appointment Registration System is an important way to see a doctor, and it’s also a preliminary tool for storage and management of clinic medical records. This new system was developed using Visual Studio 2008 and C#.NET as the development environment and tools and Microsoft Access 2003 as the database to store the medical data based on Browse/Server (B/S) model. The system consists of several data operation functions including appointment registration, data management (e.g. addition, deletion and searching), data backup and recovery, etc., thus, achieve key research ob-jectives.
文摘We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Xue-Long JIANG to serve as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for Zoological Research (ZR), effective from 1 March, 2016. Dr. JIANG, Professor and principle investigator from the Laboratory of Mammal Ecology and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has worked with ZR since 2006 as a member of the editorial board and has played an active and important role in maintaining ZR as a respected academic publishing platform. Currently, he also works as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Acta Thefiologica Sinica, Mammal Research and as a senior editorial board member of Biodiversity Science.
文摘We are very pleased to announce that we have invited Dr. Wai-Yee Chan, Professor and Director of School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to serve as the Associate Editor- in-Chief for Zoological Research (ZR), effective 1 September, 2016.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaunder Grant Nos. 61501247, 61373131 and 61702277the Six Talent Peaks Project ofJiangsu Province (Grant No. 2015-XXRJ-013)+2 种基金Natural Science Foundation of JiangsuProvince (Grant No. BK20171458)he Natural Science Foundation of the HigherEducation Institutions of Jiangsu Province (China under Grant No. 16KJB520030)theNUIST Research Foundation for Talented Scholars under Grant No. 2015r014, PAPDand CICAEET funds.
文摘Suppose a practical scene that when two or more parties want to schedule anappointment, they need to share their calendars with each other in order to make itpossible. According to the present result the whole communication cost to solve thisproblem should be their calendars’ length by using a classical algorithm. In this work, weinvestigate the appointment schedule issue made by N users and try to accomplish it inquantum information case. Our study shows that the total communication cost will bequadratic times smaller than the conventional case if we apply a quantum algorithm in theappointment-scheduling problem.
基金support from the US National Institutes of Health D43 TW009595 and P30 AI064518 programsCharles Muiruri was supported by the National Heart,Lung,And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health trader Award U01HL142099.
文摘Background:Missed clinic appointments negatively impact clinic patient flow and health outcomes of people living with HIV(PLHIV).PLHIV likelihood of missing clinic appointments is associated with direct and indirect expenditures made while accessing HIV care.The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between out-of-pocket(OOP)health expenditures and the likelihood of missing appointments.Method:Totally 618 PLHIV older than 18 years attending two HIV care and treatment centres(CTC)in Northern Tanzania were enrolled in the study.Clinic attendance and clinical characteristics were abstracted from medical records.Information on OOP health expenditures,demographics,and socio-economic factors were self-reported by the participants.We used a hurdle model.The first part of the hurdle model assessed the marginal effect of a one Tanzanian Shillings(TZS)increase in OOP health expenditure on the probability of having a missed appointment and the second part assessed the probability of having missed appointments for those who had missed an appointment over the study period.Results:Among these 618 participants,242(39%)had at least one missed clinic appointment in the past year.OOP expenditure was not significantly associated with the number of missed clinic appointments.The median amount of OOP paid was 5100 TZS per visit,about 7%of the median monthly income.Participants who were separated from their partners(adjusted odds ratio[AOR]=1.83,95%confidence interval[CZ]:1.11-8.03)and those aged above 50 years(AOR=2.85,95%CI:1.01-8.03)were significantly associated with missing an appointment.For those who had at least one missed appointment over the study period,the probability of missing a clinic appointment was significantly associated with seeking care in a public CTC(P=0.49,95%CI:0.88-0.09)and aged between>25-35 years(P=0.90,95%CI:0.11-1.69).Conclusion:Interventions focused on improving compliance to clinic appointments should target public CTCs,PLHIV aged between>25-35 years,above 50 years of age and those who are separated from their partners.
文摘In clinic's appointment scheduling system no-shows have been a significant and confirmed issue with a bad influence on patient accessibility and clinic efficiency. The problem of walk-in has often been seen as the opposite of no-show problem. In this work we revisit a walk-in admitting based approach to mitigate the bad influence of no-show without overbooking. First we establish a model which utilizes marginal benefit objective function to balance the interests of the clinic, the patient and the doctor, we prove that no-show and walk-in cancels out each other straightly has a bad property. Then we propose a new rule which is an extension of the well-known Bailey - Welch rule, the simulation results show that our rule has an improvement comparing with the common rule that cancels them out straightly.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62103171,61773142)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(Grant Nos.2020J05095,2020J05096)the Jiangsu Provincial Double⁃Innovation Doctor Program(Grant Nos.JSSCBS20210993,JSSCBS20211009)。
文摘This paper addresses a geometric control algorithm for the attitude tracking problem of the rigid spacecraft modeled on SO(3).Considering the topological and geometric properties of SO(3),we introduced a smooth positive attitude error function to convert the attitude tracking issue on SO(3)into the stabilization counterpart on its Lie algebra.The error transformation technique was further utilized to ensure the assigned transient and steady state performance of the attitude tracking error with the aid of a well⁃designed assigned⁃time performance function.Then,using the actor⁃critic(AC)neural architecture,an adaptive reinforcement learning approximator was constructed,in which the actor neural network(NN)was utilized to approximate the unknown nonlinearity online.A critic function was introduced to tune the next phase of the actor neural network operation for performance improvement via supervising the system performance.A rigorous stability analysis was presented to show that the assigned system performance can be achieved.Finally,the effectiveness and feasibility of the constructed control strategy was verified by the numerical simulation.