What is it about?
This chapter presents statistical methods for describing how long patients wait for care and how frequently they experience adverse outcomes of waiting.
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Why is it important?
Variation in time to care among patients presents makes it difficult to compare delays across services providing the same procedure.
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We are using this chapter in teaching summary measures of wait times and their resulting impact on health.
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Waits and outcomes: What should be reported?, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76422-1_3.
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