Mean waiting times were systematically greater than median waiting times, indicating that the distribution was highly skewed (data not shown).
To date, there have been few attempts to systematically study the determinants of waiting times in children's community health services [ 12], or community health services more broadly [ 13- 16].
Imagine how much better organizations could perform if managers could learn how to systematically tap into these reserves without waiting for a crisis, and then sustain the results.
We aimed to investigate how two organizational planning difficulties, (i) long access times and (ii) long waiting times, could be analysed systematically.
How can managers learn to systematically tap in to those reserves without waiting for a crisis?
Access probabilities in priority 3 (blue) were systematically lower indicating longer wait list times than among priority 2 (red line) or priority 1 (green line).
Active case finding (ACF) is a screening strategy used to systematically search for possible TB cases in groups thought to be at high risk, rather than waiting for patients to present themselves for medical attention.
The properties of waiting management that involve feinting and covering up to change the experience of waiting seem not so well studied systematically.
We're waiting for another couple of weeks before it's up high enough in the sky that we can start observing it and then we're going to start systematically sweeping that area until we find it.
