title: How to keep the practice on schedule: 30 tips for the medical practice staff.
abstract: It isn't always easy to keep a busy medical practice on schedule. However, a quick-thinking staff member can work wonders to avoid scheduling bottlenecks and realign an appointment schedule that's careening out of control. This article offers 30 specific strategies for the medical practice staff to help them keep the practice on schedule. It suggests that taking a proactive approach to handling problems is best and that analyzing patterns within the schedule can uncover problems that staff members will be able to solve once and for all. This article also offers the medical practice staff effective strategies for minimizing the number of daily interruptions and explains how anticipating the physician's needs can save valuable production time. Finally, this article urges staff members to consider how identifying and working with the physician's scheduling preferences can make everyone happier and enable the practice to stay on schedule.
authors.affiliation: merlegerle@aol.com
authors.forename: Laura Sachs
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Hills
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D004526:Efficiency; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D005791:Patient Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States