Elective surgery waiting times case study
Waiting Times and Waiting Lists: A Model of the Market for Elective Surgery
... Definition admissions per 1000 DHA population per quarter number waiting less than 3 months per 1000 DHA population number waiting per 1000 DHA pop proportion waiting more than 3 months [r] ...
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Socioeconomic differences in waiting times for elective surgery: a population based retrospective study
... Results Characteristics of the population As shown in Table 3, during the study period, most patients who underwent hip replacement (54.7%) and cardiovascular procedures (CABG, 49.1%; angioplasty, 43.2%; ...
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Health authorities and general practice fund holders as purchasers of elective surgery: A case study of waiting times
... at local NHS providers tends to occur in the six month window that is disregarded for budget setting purposes. This is one of the findings that make allegations about fimd- holders having overgenerous budgets look rather ...
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The acceptability of waiting times for elective general surgery and the appropriateness of prioritising patients
... Preferential treatment for non-clinical reasons is contro- versial for it may conflict with fairness in care provision [19]. However, it has been shown to occur in practice and it can for instance contribute to reducing ...
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Elective surgery waiting times 2014–15: Australian hospital statistics
... from waiting lists because they were Treated elsewhere and around 62,500 were removed for Surgery not required or ...hospital’s waiting list and these patients could appear as more than one addition ...
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Decision making tools for managing waiting times and treatment rates in elective surgery
... this study consist in the fact that it only takes into account nine elective surgical pro- ...the study can be easily replicated by including additional procedures or by con- sidering other Italian ...
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The impact of government targets on waiting times for elective surgery: new insights from time-to-event analysis
... Yet, all previous graphs exploited data at an aggregated level; the first part of the paper concentrated on the differences between specialties as a whole, that is in all NHS trusts of E[r] ...
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Waiting times for elective treatments according to insurance status: A randomized empirical study in Germany
... current study by means of a telephone ...the case that the particular health insurance company was asked for, a market leading company in the respective insurance sector was ...
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Communicating organisational outcomes using simple performance indicators: a case study using ACT elective surgery waiting lists
... their surgery is A292011 Experience leaves patient sick of the hospital ...needed surgery for gallstones, he had a history of cardiac problems and was morbidly ...the surgery on several occasions, ...
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A model to prioritize access to elective surgery on the basis of clinical urgency and waiting time
... Urgency classification Urgency assessment is a crucial topic since it represents the main milestone of the entire prioritization process. Given the absence of great international agreement on the subject, it may ...
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Long Waiting Times for Elective Hospital Care – Breaking the Vicious Circle by Abandoning Prioritisation
... while waiting, thus preventing unnecessary ...keeping waiting lists increase with the size of the ...certain waiting list size represents the ideal waiting ...ideal waiting list is ...
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How can we improve waiting time for elective surgery in Australian public hospitals?
... elastic, waiting time for publicly funded elective surgery could increase further if a private sector ...reduce elective surgery waiting ...
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Introducing a reserve waiting list initiative for elective general surgery at a District General Hospital
... Another limitation that became apparent through the latter months of data collection was giving patients false hope of a faster operation. Despite patients being adequately counselled that being placed on the reserve ...
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Expectantly waiting: a survey of thyroid surgery wait times among Canadian Otolaryngologists
... Our study has several ...thyroid surgery, such as general surgeons, who were not accounted for in this ...the study of wait times, and specifically wait times for thyroid ...
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Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis
... Further evidence suggesting the dominance of targets as the driver of change comes from the observation that, both at the level of procedures and of hospi- tals, the peaks in the probability of admission that are evident ...
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Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis
... an elective procedure were added to a waiting ...people waiting more than 6 months for surgery, yet later on, the view that patients should select hospitals and not hospitals patients was ...
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The Development of an Orthopedic Waiting List Algorithm for Elective Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement Surgery
... average waiting list costs: 1) more surgeries can be performed so that waiting times are reduced; 2) alternative criteria may be used to enter patient on the waiting list, altering the size ...
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Waiting times in the ambulatory sector - the case of chronically Ill patients
... ‘ waiting times ’ variable In the present study the quantity ‘waiting times’ is the dependent variable in the first regression and the ex- planatory variable in the ...for ...
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Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities for elective treatment? Evidence from Scotland.
... maximum waiting times to 18 weeks in 2007 could have been achieved in three ...this case we would expect that, for all groups of patients of a given age and DSI, the share of those treated is smaller ...
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Recording and reporting referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times for consultant-led elective care: Frequently Asked Questions
... the case of highly specialised services it may be legitimate to apply further criteria in assessing whether a referral is clinically appropriate, so that the service is available to those for whom it is most ...
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