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Predicting no-shows for dental appointments.
Yazeed Alabdulkarim1, Mohammed Almukaynizi1, Abdulmajeed Alameer2
1Information Systems Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Predicting dental patient no-shows is crucial for healthcare efficiency. Machine learning models can forecast appointment cancellations, enabling clinics to optimize scheduling and reduce costs associated with missed dental visits.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Machine Learning Applications
- Dental Health Services
Background:
- Patient no-shows represent a significant financial burden on healthcare systems, with up to 80% of appointments missed.
- Understanding variations in no-show behavior across different clinic types and appointment specialties is essential for effective mitigation.
- Dental appointments, often longer and more complex, present unique challenges in managing patient attendance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate machine learning models for predicting individual patient no-shows in dental settings.
- To introduce a novel method for representing patient no-show history to improve predictive accuracy.
- To explore the practical applications of no-show prediction in optimizing dental appointment scheduling.
Main Methods:
- Utilized machine learning techniques to build predictive models for dental appointment no-shows.
- Developed a new approach to encode patient no-show history as binary event sequences.
- Evaluated model performance using metrics such as Area Under the Curve (AUC) and F1 score.
Main Results:
- The best predictive model achieved an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.718.
- The optimal model demonstrated an F1 score of 66.5% in predicting dental no-shows.
- The novel no-show history representation method enhanced the predictive capabilities of the models.
Conclusions:
- Machine learning models can effectively predict dental patient no-shows.
- The proposed no-show history representation aids in learning future behavior patterns.
- Accurate no-show predictions can inform strategies for appointment reallocation and duration adjustment, improving clinic efficiency.

