منابع مشابه
Bariatric surgery waiting times in Canada.
BACKGROUND Severe obesity is reaching epidemic proportions throughout the world, including Canada. The only permanent treatment of severe or morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Access to bariatric surgery is very limited in Canada. We sought to collect accurate data on waiting times for the procedure. METHODS We carried out a survey of members of the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physici...
متن کاملWESt: Visualizing non-Emergency Surgery Waiting Times
We present WESt, a visualization for surgery waiting times applied to the province of British Columbia (BC) in Canada. This project is motivated by the long waiting time for surgeries in BC, which has the potential to put patients in danger and put extra pressure on clinicians [2]. WESt helps patients select a hospital and a physician, and to explore their options to get their surgery as soon a...
متن کاملMeasuring waiting times for elective surgery in public hospitals.
The article by Walters et al. raised some very important points related to the problem of long elective surgery waiting lists in Australian public hospitals, including those related to the reporting of waiting lists being a poor indicator of quality for a health service. The number of people on a waiting list does not actually give any indication as to whether patients are being seen within cli...
متن کاملMeeting the challenge of reducing waiting times for surgery.
T article by Snider and associates in the current issue of the Journal (Can J Surg 2005;48:35560) tackles the thorny issue of waiting for access to care in Canada’s public health system. In their study, the investigators surveyed patients who waited for total hip or knee arthroplasty in both community orthopedic practice and an urban academic tertiary care setting. Significantly, over half the ...
متن کاملAssessment of patient waiting times for vascular surgery.
OBJECTIVES To assess patient waiting times for vascular surgery and to determine if complications of the disease develop while the patients are awaiting surgery. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING A university-affiliated tertiary care institution. PATIENTS All 554 patients who underwent scheduled vascular surgical procedures between April 1995 and October 1996. OUTCOME MEASURES A ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7181.419b