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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of  Health Systems and Policies</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2667-4920</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2718-0050</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.52675/jhesp.1257436</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Health Policy</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Sağlık Politikası</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Process Management and Improvement in Health Services: A Hospital Appointment System Example</article-title>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-9581</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Güç</surname>
                                    <given-names>Gülseren</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>MARMARA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES</aff>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1896-9963</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Gedik</surname>
                                    <given-names>Merve</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>MARMARA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES</aff>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0265-5217</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Çılgın</surname>
                                    <given-names>Cüneyt</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>MARMARA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES</aff>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8742-2625</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Tuncalı Yaman</surname>
                                    <given-names>Tutku</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>MARMARA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20230630">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>30</month>
                    <year>2023</year>
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                                        <volume>5</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>11</fpage>
                                        <lpage>40</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20230227">
                        <day>02</day>
                        <month>27</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20230324">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>24</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, Journal of  Health Systems and Policies</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>In today&#039;s competitive conditions, businesses that produce goods or services frequently benefit from process improvement and similar methods to achieve their goals. Being process-oriented means giving importance to the creation of quality, not quality control. The Hospital Appointment system is the admission of patients to polyclinics at certain time periods. The purpose of the appointment system for the patients is to organize and spread the time of the patients&#039; arrival at the hospital outpatient clinics. In general, to solve the waiting problem in hospitals, health services are provided by distributing patients to certain time periods. However, due to the insufficient capacity of the hospital, the patients&#039; demand for health services cannot be met, and therefore the appointment problem continues. Patients spend days on the internet and on the phone to get an appointment from some medical units. In this context, the aim of the study is to make improvements and evaluate the results by evaluating the problems experienced in the process of making an appointment in health services in terms of quality, time, technique, and customer satisfaction.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Process Improvement</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Health Services</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Appointment System</kwd>
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