The Evaluation of Outpatient Appointment System for Five Years

Abstract

We carried out the outpatient appointment system in Saitama National Hospital to control the number of outpatients for five years and studied these economic and medical evaluation.
We produced the good results as follows:
1. the hospital income was always more than expenditure.
2. the mean number of outpatient per day was able to be controled always about 450 and the mean number of admission per day was able to be increased to about 340 from 280.
3. the number of outpatient on one doctors'duty per day saved down to 37 from 47.
4. the number of outpatients on one nurses duty day saved down to 39 from 51.
5. the outpatient-nursing-time was able to be curtailed 195 minutes from 240 minutes per day per one nurse ore day.
the efforts were rewarded and were able to put in practice the outpatient appointment system and to place great emphasis on the admission treatment.