Waiting times fall in Scotland, but watchdog urges caution

Framework urges physicians to proceed with caution on palliative sedation.

Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities for elective treatment? Evidence from Scotland.

The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in scheduling hospital treatment. We demonstrate the usefulness of conditional d...

Nhs Waiting times in Wales

Bioethics Education in Pakistan: Laudable Growth but a Need for Caution

Waiting for a Retweet: Modeling Waiting Times in Information Propagation

Social media are increasingly used to disseminate emergency warnings, alerts, and other hazard-related information. In this context, the timing of information propagation is of immediate interest. Time-sensitive information must reach members of the general public before the pertinence of the information expires. In this research we build a preliminary model for the time between information dis...