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 …

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

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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 …

The numbers now waiting for treatment in the NHS are more than double what they were in
1948 despite huge increases in activity. Increased activity has not reduced the time patients …

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 …

Waiting-time targets are used by policy makers to monitor providers' performance. Such
targets are based on the distribution of the patients on the list. We compare and link such …

350 J can chir, Vol. 48, No 5, octobre 2005'2005 AMC MØdia Inc. benchmarks. As far as
possible these should be based on published evidence, but expert opinion is also essential …

Wait times for medical procedures in Canada are universally thought to be too long,
particularly for elective procedures. In this paper we point out the conceptual and practical …