Neighborhood Effects on Missed Appointments in a Large Urban Academic Multispecialty Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Missed appointments diminish the continuity and quality of care.

Objective

To determine whether missing scheduled appointments is associated with characteristics of the populations in places where patients reside.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional study using data extracted from electronic health records linked to population descriptors for each patient's census tract of residence.

Patients

A total of 58,981 patients ≥18 years of age with 275,682 scheduled appointments during 2014-2015 at a multispecialty outpatient practice.

Main measures

We used multinomial generalized linear mixed models to examine associations between the outcomes of scheduled appointments (arrived, canceled, or missed) and selected characteristics of the populations in

SUBMITTER: Chou EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature