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What is Patient Resident Time (PRT)

Chapter 141
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
The amount of time a patient spends in the healthcare system, typically measured from the moment they enter the system, until the time of their medical discharge.
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Reducing Patient Delays in a Day Surgery Unit of a Hospital
Victoria Hanna (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Kannan Sethuraman (Melbourne Business School, Australia)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch141
Abstract
In this article, we illustrate the relevance of queuing theory principles to the healthcare sector through a case study of a day surgery unit in a hospital in Melbourne, Australia. The hospital has an acknowledged problem: patients are spending longer-than-anticipated periods of time in the day surgery unit, and they are facing excessive waiting times at all stages of their healthcare delivery process. The hospital is operated on a not-forprofit basis, and the executive board members are keen to understand the root causes of the problem, so they can direct their investment in the system to improve its responsiveness.
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