In some specialties, patients may be booked weeks or months ahead in ____ scheduling.
A. cluster
B. advance
C. time-specified
D. wave
E. modified-wave
B. advance
Advance scheduling is useful in practices or specialties in which patients are generally booked weeks or months in advance.
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