What is it about?
For wait-listed patients, time to surgery depends on the list size at registration, the number of new registrations, as well as on the weekly number of patients who move immediately from angiography to coronary bypass surgery without being registered on a wait list.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Hospital managers may use these findings to improve resource planning and to reduce uncertainty when providing advice on expected treatment delays.
Perspectives
Time to surgery is driven by variation in demand and policy of booking operating time for competing procedures
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Does Wait-List Size at Registration Influence Time to Surgery? Analysis of a Population-Based Cardiac Surgery Registry, Health Services Research, February 2006, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00459.x.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
