Boris Sobolev and colleagues used prospectively collected data on waiting times for
vascular surgery and compared waits calculated both prospectively and retrospectively. 1 …

Fig. 1: Estimated probability of undergoing surgery as a function of waiting time. Data for a
single group of patients awaiting vascular surgery were analysed according to a …

Fig. 1: Typical curves for expected annual costs. rival of patients. The optimal waitlist occurs
where the U-shaped curve in Fig. 1, which depicts the sum of the expected annual costs of …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors received treatment during December
1999 had waited, the retrospective method would be used. Alternatively, one could use the …

The official Department of Health measurement of waiting time is taken from the Waiting List
returns. For admitted patient care (ordinary admissions and day cases), waiting lists are …

On September 11, 2000, the First Ministers of Canada issued a communiqué pledging to
develop and report on waiting times for a number of diagnostic and treatment services …

In health care systems that provide universal access to care, efforts to contain costs for
standby hospital capacity usually result in wait lists for surgical procedures. When access to …

Patient wait times are inevitable, but their reduction or elimination is an important marketing
tool. Patients feel increased time demands, and if the wait is too long, they may not come …

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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the effect of excluding incomplete observations and
competing events when calculating cross‐sectional measures of NHS waiting times, and to …