Health and Medicine

CASE STUDY
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(February 07, 2013)
CASE STUDY
Introduction
According to the records at the pediatric orthopedic clinic which is part of a health science center located at the city of London, Canada Ontario and CWHO this acted as the regional health center where children were given special treatment. The number of people in this area which has ten counties is about 1.4 million which is an inclusion of the children who are about 400000. The services also attracts patients from outside this region in the neighboring counties, one of the other major role of this pediatric orthopedic clinic is that a child faced with a complex bone trauma is usually referred here for any further examination and treatments. This clinic operates for three and a half day sessions every week this is from Monday to Wednesday starting from 8.30 am all through to 1.00 pm. The rest of the days of the week when the clinic is not operating the facilities are put to use by other subspecialties more so of surgery. The clinic has a staff consisting of a surgeon, three clerks, two senior students residing in the area, and about four registered nurses (Leitch, 2009).
Start with patient arrivalProcessing of patient documentsPatient`s dataX-rayExamination roomDecisionStop3 Clerks, 5 Minutes4 Nurses-4-9 MinutesHandoffX-ray 2minRadiology1 Clerk6 Technicians3 RadiologistsSubmitting form ImagingDevelopmentConsultationReceive X-ray1 Surgeon2 Residents1 Cast TechnicianQuestion 1: Illustrating the Current patient flow
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The patient flow at the clinic is recorded at the front desk where registration and verification is done, in the registration desk it`s the first point for customers to make contact with the hospital staffs. The first appointments are usually about 8.30 but despite this arrangement the patients rarely get appointments until as late as 11.30a.m. According to the records at the registration desk the last patient went for frequen...