BACKGROUND Periodically surveying wait times for specialist health services in Canada captures current data and enables comparisons with previous surveys to identify changes over time. METHODS During one week in April 2012, Canadian gastroenterologists were asked to complete a questionnaire (online or by fax) recording demographics, reason for referral, and dates of referral and specialist vi...

In 2009-2010, a "time of surgery" data element was added to CIHI's Discharge Abstract Database enabling a more precise calculation of patient wait times for hip fracture repair, measured in hours rather than days. Using an Ontario sample, we explored this more precise calculation for the first three quarters of 2009-2010 (April to December), and the impact of adding wait times in the emergency ...

BACKGROUND Many countries have tried to reduce waiting times for health care through formal wait time reduction strategies. Our paper describes views of members of the public about a wait time management initiative--the Ontario Wait Time Strategy (OWTS) (Canada). Scholars and governmental reports have advocated for increased public involvement in wait time management. We provide empirically der...

This paper considers trajectory planning for a mobile robot which persistently relays data between pairs of far-away communication nodes. Data accumulates stochastically at each source, and the must move to appropriate positions enable offload corresponding destination. The needs minimize average time that waits source before being serviced. We are interested in finding optimal robotic routing ...

Approaches for Deadlock Detection and Prevention in Distributed Database System Swati Gupta Lecturer, Department of Computer Science Amity University Haryana ,Gurgaon, India _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: A distributed database system consists of different number of sites that are inter connected by a communication network. A de...