Background: Significant controversy remains over how urgently coronary artery bypass graft
surgery (CABG) should be scheduled, particularly for patients with stenosis of the left main …

Background In deciding where to undergo coronary-artery bypass grafting, the length of
surgical wait lists is often the only information available to cardiologists and their patients …

OBJECTIVES The public health care system in Brazil has extensive waiting lists of patients
requiring complex operations such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The purpose …

To determine the factors that influenced doctors' ated symptom reduction, MI risk reduction
and life expectancy extension), had only modest explanatory prioritization and decisions on …

Med., 2007, 213 (2), 173-180── Contoversy exists about the optimal operation time of the
patients with left main coronary artery (LMCA) stenosis. We therefore, aimed to investigate …

Background The Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre uses a weekly peer-review
conference of cardiovascular experts to prioritize each surgical case to 1 of 4 queues with …

BACKGROUND.: The economic impact of health care reforms may result in waiting lists for
coronary artery bypass grafting. This study was designed to examine the clinical results of …

Background: Priority wait lists are common for managing access to cardiac surgery in
publicly funded health systems. We evaluated whether longer delays contribute to the …

Objectives: To elicit patients' maximal acceptable waiting times (MAWT) for non-urgent
coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and to determine if MAWT is related to prior …

Background: In certain health care systems, patients wait for non-emergency services.
Although waiting may not be considered acceptable, the delay may allow for patient …