Lengthening queues and deaths among patients on waiting lists for coro-nary artery bypass
graft surgery (CABG) have repeatedly sparked professional and public concern since the …

Many of the clinical benchmarking projects featured in the Lead Story are designed to
produce quick results. The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group …

BACKGROUND: Newfoundland and Labrador, like other health care jurisdictions, is faced
with widening gaps between the demands for health care and a strained ability to supply the …

OBJECTIVES.: This study was designed to compare waiting times for cardiovascular
procedures in five different health care delivery/financing systems. BACKGROUND.: A …

In the area of bypass surgery, for example, the provinces agreed to benchmarks that vary
according to the level of urgent care required (Level I: within two weeks; Level II: within six …

Comparisons between Canadian and American health care systems are of interest to
policymakers and health services researchers on both sides of the border. The high levels of …

The Cardiac Care Network of Ontario (CCN) Consensus Panel on Cardiac Surgical Services
drew on the literature and its own expertise to recommend guidelines for expanding …

Quality assessment in medicine is not a new phenomenon. Although somewhat anathema
to modern medical ethics, the Code of Hammurabi over three and half millennia ago had …

Background Improving access to care and reducing wait times are perpetual objectives of
Canada's provincially administered health care systems. The objective of this study was to …

Waiting times for important and resource-intensive cardiovascular procedures have become
a popular index for assessing the degree of rationing of medical care that is perceived to …