In many respects, healthcare has been measured on production with an almost factory floor-like model of producing as many "widgets" (i.e., procedures, appointments, tests, prescriptions, etc).
For patients who did not have ultrasound procedure appointment, their arrival times denote the times they arrived at the clinic.
The remaining of gelfoam pieces in the ear canal were removed at the end of the second month, the date of the first post procedure appointment.
We used this method for the variables regarding number of dental chairs, number of patients/week, number of days waiting for a new patient exam, and typical number of days a patient has to wait for a treatment procedure appointment.
The arrival times of patients, who had ultrasound procedure appointments, denote the times they come back to the waiting room after ultrasound procedure.
Accreditation of ambassadors or other chiefs of mission is handled in accordance with internationally accepted procedures, but appointment of both ambassadors and other officers follows the constitutional practice of individual states.
But although the 2007 finance law sets the stage for many of these reforms, many details--about the new procedures for appointment of researchers and how a new evaluation agency will be run, for example--require further legislation before they become real.
The scheme was scaled back when the previous government channelled funds into making these posts permanent--but very few tenured positions have been secured, mainly because the procedures for appointment were so vague and complex that there was no consensus on how to apply them.
Despite that, NHS trusts will have to cancel elective procedures, outpatient appointments and draw up emergency rotas if the strikes go ahead.
The first strike in January led to thousands of operations, procedures and appointments being cancelled across the NHS, according to the Press Association.
Thousands of operations, procedures and appointments will be cancelled due to next week's strike, when junior doctors will provide emergency care only from 8am on Wednesday to 8am on Thursday.
