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Waiting Your Turn

22 Nov 2016

To obtain the national medians (displayed in the last column of tables 2, 3, 4, and 8) we use a similar ratio—the number of procedures done in that specialty in the province, divided by the total number of procedures done by spe- cialists in that specialty across all provinces. [...] To estimate the number of procedures for which people are waiting, the total annual number of procedures is divided by 52 (weeks per year) and then multiplied by the Fraser Institute’s estimate of the actual provincial average number of weeks waited. [...] This study’s weighting of medians and the estimation of the number of procedures for which patients are waiting are based on data for 2014/15 from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) (CIHI, 2016a) the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) (CIHI, 2016b), and the Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB) (CIHI, 2016c) published by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). [...] In these cases, we divide the number of patients annually undergoing this type of operation among specialties according to the proportion of specialists in each of the overlap- ping specialties: for example, if plastic surgeons constitute 75% of the group of special- ists performing rhinoplasties, then the number of rhinoplasties counted under plastic fraserinstitute.org. [...] Accordingly, the Institute measures the time between the decision of the specialist that treatment is required and treatment being received as well as the time between a referral by a general practitioner and the consultation with a specialist.
ISBN
9780889754256
Pages
100
Published in
Vancouver, BC, CA