1. THE REDUCTION OF HOSPITAL WAIT
TIMES AND AVOIDABLE
HOSPITALIZATION SIGNIFICANTLY
HELPS IN THE REDUCTION OF COSTS
IN SAUDI ARABIA, UAE AND UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
Hussam Albugami, MD, MPH, PhD (c)
Advisor:
Dr. Donald Steinwachs

2. (Olsson, Ojehagen, Bradvik, & Hakansson, 2015)

3. Summary
Issues faced within the healthcare professions:
 increased cost of services within the
healthcare setup.
 high chance that satisfaction among
customers
 Patients with the need for minor services have
been forced to wait for longer hours

5. Background
Conditions that lead individuals in different parts
of the world to seek medical attention:
 Osteoarthritis

6. (Olsson, Ojehagen, Bradvik, & Hakansson, 2015)

7. Strategy Overview
 To identify the individuals who face a big risk
of long waits and unnecessary hospital
admissions.

8. The Utility Method
 This method raises a number of questions
since the rate of admission and the use of bed
have not declined for the high risks patients.

9. Alternative Technique
 An alternative technique based on the
threshold modeling uses of a questionnaire

10. General Objectives
 To examine the cause of long wait hours and
unnecessary hospitalizations in Saudi Arabia, UAE
and the United States.
 To find out the groups of people who are at risk of long
hospital waiting hours and avoidable hospitalization.
 To determine the costs obtained by both patients and
hospital administrations as a result of long waiting
hours and hospitalization.
 To evaluate the strategies that can be applied to
reduce the cost of the long wait hours and
hospitalizations.
 To discover the roles that both patients can play to
reduce the wait hours and unnecessary
hospitalizations.

11. Contributing factors
 Unnecessary admissions

13. More Ideal System
 categorizing the patients into clinically and
statistically homogeneous categories based on
the administrative and clinical data collection

14. Measures to be Implemented
 To cut down on waiting.
 The effort to revamp the scheduling process
that is done at the front line(Davis et al., 222).

15. Scheduling of patients
 Scheduling of patients for these procedures
should be done on those days when the
hospital tends to have a lower number of
patients following a busy evening at the
emergency departments (Siciliani & Martin
770).

16. (Olsson, Ojehagen, Bradvik, & Hakansson, 2015)

17. Reducing Hospital Wait Times
 Policy implementation to address problems
leading to increased wait time.

18. (Olsson, Ojehagen, Bradvik, & Hakansson, 2015)

19. Continuation……
 This can be attained through the incorporation
of the patient preferences.

20. Gaps within the Healthcare
Systems
 Many of these steps have already been taken
in most of the health facilities in the United
States.

21. (Olsson, Ojehagen, Bradvik, & Hakansson, 2015)

22. Conclusion
 The triage system will be adapted to help in
the determination of strategies that reduce the
amount of waiting time and unnecessary
admissions.
 It must have objectives that are achievable in
hospitals in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the United
States.
 It contains the most effective markers that
include the time used to see the physician and
the quality of the triage.

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