Appointments and Schedules
"Appointments and Schedules" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The different methods of scheduling patient visits, appointment systems, individual or group appointments, waiting times, waiting lists for hospitals, walk-in clinics, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D001071
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.452.095
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Appointments- Patient Appointments
- Appointment, Patient
- Appointments, Patient
- Patient Appointment
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Appointments and Schedules" by people in Profiles.
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Challenges with tracing patients on antiretroviral therapy who are late for clinic appointments in rural South Africa and recommendations for future practice. Glob Health Action. 2020 12 31; 13(1):1755115.
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Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: user and provider perspectives. Health Policy Plan. 2017 03 01; 32(2):257-266.
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Influences on visit retention in clinical trials: insights from qualitative research during the VOICE trial in Johannesburg, South Africa. BMC Womens Health. 2014 Jul 28; 14:88.
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Dynamic logistic regression model and population attributable fraction to investigate the association between adherence, missed visits and mortality: a study of HIV-infected adults surviving the first year of ART. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Aug 27; 13:395.