New tool helps doctors determine which patients are most likely to forget or skip their appointments

Patients who don't show up for their scheduled medical appointments drain health care providers' time and resources, reducing appointment availability, increasing wait times, and reducing patient satisfaction.

In an effort to solve this problem, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University's Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare has developed a new algorithm that can reduce no-show rates and increase appointment availability.

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