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Forecasting requests for General Practitioners’ Time at a busy medical centre Version 1
2001
Abstract
Objective: To create a model which relates the number of people requiring the doctors’ time in a set period to the amount of people requiring the doctor‟s time in previous periods.
Design: Observational study using the doctor’s accounts from January 1995 to December 1999.
Participant: Western Australian Medical practice, with multiple doctors and after hours consulting times.
Main Outcome Measures: Total number of people that are billed by the doctors at the medical centre for the thirteen 4-week periods each year.
Results: The number of people requiring the doctors’ time from 65 observed 4-week periods leads to a seasonal time series model. This is successfully fitted for all but one observation that is deemed to be an outlier.
Conclusions: Statistical time series models offer a useful predictor of number of peoples’ requests for future time periods, which can be helpful in managing modern general practices.
Details
- Title
- Forecasting requests for General Practitioners’ Time at a busy medical centre Version 1
- Authors/Creators
- B.R. Clarke (Author/Creator)C.J. Milne (Author/Creator)N. Yatawara (Author/Creator)E.H. Trepp (Author/Creator)
- Identifiers
- 991005543844907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report
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