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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2013 Mar 20;33(8):976–985. doi: 10.1177/0272989X13478194

Table 6.

The reference scenario (0% no-show rate) is compared to overbooking 9 patients with a no-show rate of 18%.

No-show Rate (%) Number Over-booked Expected Number of Patients Attending Expected Net Gain (95% CI) Expected Overtime (hours) Expected Patient Wait Time (min)

0 0 24 $4,433.32 (4,406.33, 4,460.31) 0.32 6.66
18 9 26.976 $4,448.94 (4,408.59, 4,489.29) 0.83 21.23