This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner.
It is written in a highly accessible manner for economists and non-economists alike. It is very …

Surgical suites are a key driver of a hospital's costs, revenues, and utilization of
postoperative resources such as beds. This article describes some commonly occurring …

Waiting times for elective surgery, like hip replacement, are often referred to as an equitable
rationing mechanism in publicly-funded healthcare systems because access to care is not …

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society Access to Care Working Group was formed with a
mandate to use the best science and information available to establish reasonable triage …

Investigators are frequently interested in determining patient and system characteristics
associated with delays in the provision of essential medical treatment. Investigators have …

Recent years have seen increasing interest in waiting-list prioritisation systems in a number
of countries, although such systems have a long history. Critical analysis demonstrates that …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to document the impact of waiting for first-time
elective coronary angiography (CA) on patients' anxiety and health-related quality of life …

Objective: In a system with implicit queue management, to examine gender and
socioeconomic status as determinants of waiting time for inpatient surgery, after adjusting for …

Purpose The purpose of the review is to draw on evidence from the literature to assess the
current status and relevance of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine's …

Equity in waiting times for major joint arthroplasty Page 1 Accepted for publication Aug. 3,
2001. Correspondence to: Dr. Karen D. Kelly, Associate Professor. Chair, Health Services …