Health of patients on the waiting list: Opportunity to improve health in Canada?

Jason Murray Sutherland, R. Trafford Crump, Angie Chan, Guiping Liu, Elizabeth Yue and Matthew Bair

Health Policy, 2016, vol. 120, issue 7, 749-757

Abstract: A number of countries have healthcare systems where access to elective surgery is constrained. The inevitable outcome is wait lists for surgery. The objective of this study is to report cross-sectional health data collected from a broad sample of patients awaiting elective surgery and shed light on potential non-surgical treatments to improve health.

Keywords: Access; Patient-reported outcomes; Surgery; Surgical wait list; Wait times (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.04.017

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