Washington—The strategy of “ predictive overbooking” can optimize endoscopy scheduling and negate the effect of no-show patients, according to researchers who used it to streamline their clinic’s operation at a Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system in Los Angeles.
“Predictive overbooking may be a useful tool for improving patient throughput in gastrointestinal endoscopy units,” said Brennan Spiegel, MD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes