Temporal Trends in Nonattendence Rate for Scheduled Outpatient Appointments.

May 14, 2024 updated by: LUCIA.PEREZ, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Ecological time-series study using secondary databases.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

A time-series study will be conducted to evaluate nonattendance over time. The unit of analysis will be the appointment.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

13823093

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Argentina
      • Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aire, Argentina, 1406
        • Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

N/A

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

The study population comprises individuals who requested at least one appointment for scheduled outpatient medical care at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires during the study period in any of its settings.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Appointments scheduled for outpatient medical care across all settings and specialties from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2023

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Cancelled appointments, including cancellations made by the patient, medical team, and the appointment management system.
  • Appointments that do not correspond to scheduled in-person care (Teleconsultations,
  • Appointments for walk-in demand).
  • Scheduled appointments that are not for medical care (Health coverage or specialties that do not correspond to scheduled medical care, Appointments for procedures,
  • Appointments for complementary exams, Appointments for treatments such as speech therapy, physiotherapy, or other therapies).
  • Spontaneous overflow appointments where the patient spontaneously presents for care at that moment. These appointments cannot be absent as the present and the appointment are assigned simultaneously.
  • System errors that do not correspond to actual patient medical care appointments (Duplicate cancellations, Appointments where patient and physician coincide).

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Describe the behavior over time of the nonattendance proportion in scheduled outpatient medical appointments for in-person medical care over an 8-year period (globally and by subgroups: gender, age, medical specialty, and medical coverage).
Time Frame: 2016 to 2023
2016 to 2023
Evaluate temporal trends and changes (joinpoints) in the absenteeism proportion in scheduled outpatient medical appointments for in-person medical care over the same period.
Time Frame: 2016 to 2023
2016 to 2023

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 14, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 14, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

May 17, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 17, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 14, 2024

Last Verified

May 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 6922

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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