Long waiting time required before a patient sees a doctor is one of the major problems faced by many hospitals especially those in the developing countries. According to recent study, 97% of patients are frustrated by wait times at the doctor’s office. However, patient’s perceived wait times is often longer than the actual wait times because idle time tends to feel longer. As a result, it has b...

BACKGROUND In deciding where to undergo coronary-artery bypass grafting, the length of surgical wait lists is often the only information available to cardiologists and their patients. Our objective was to compare the cumulative incidence for death on the wait list according to the length of wait lists at the time of registration for the operation. METHODS The study cohort included 8966 patien...

Long wait times for specialist consultation affect patient care and health outcomes adversely. The wait-time continuum has various components, one of which is the wait time from referral request by a family physician to specialist appointment. The Committee on Utilization, Review, and Education (CURE), comprising a group of family physicians from the Department of Family Medicine at St Joseph’s...

OBJECTIVE Increased wait times for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) are a concern nationally and provincially. Additionally, the number of patients requiring revision of their initial TJA is increasing. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the wait times and impact of waiting for revision TJA. METHODS We followed 127 revision hip arthroplasty patients (mean age 68 y) prospectively while th...

BACKGROUND In British Columbia, Canada, all necessary medical services are funded publicly. Concerned with growing wait lists in the mid-1990s, the provincial government started providing extra funding for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) operations annually. Although aimed at improving access, it is not known whether supplementary funding changed the time that patients spent on wait list...

A protocol which can tolerate any number of processors failing by ceasing operation for unbounded time and resuming operation (with or) without knowing that they were faulty is called wait-free; if it also works correctly even when the starting state of the system is arbitrary, it is called wait-free, self-stabilizing. This work is on the problem of wait-free, self-stabilizing clock synchroniza...

A protocol which can tolerate any number of processors failing by ceasing operation for unbounded time and resuming operation (with or) without knowing that they were faulty is called wait-free; if it also works correctly even when the starting state of the system is arbitrary, it is called wait-free, self-stabilizing. This work is on the problem of wait-free, self-stabilizing clock synchroniza...

BACKGROUND Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is most common in Southeast Asia. The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between wait time and length of radiotherapy and overall survival (OS) of NPC patients in Taiwan. METHODS From Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, this nationwide population-based cohort study identified 3605 NPC patients who received radiot...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a model which defines the psychological processes that mediate the relationship between perceived wait duration (PWD) and satisfaction. This model will provide a framework for evaluating the impact of situational and environmental variables in the servicescape on customer reaction to the wait experience. Design/methodology/approach – Th...