Setting Priorities for Waiting Lists: Defining Our Terms

D.C. Hadorn

Centre for Health Services and Policy Research from University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research.

Abstract: In order to develop standardized measures to access patients's relative priority for services for which there are waiting lists, it is essential that key terms be clearly defined. We propose that severity be defined as the degree or extent of suffering, limits to activities or risk of death, that urgency be defined as severity combined with considerations of the expected benefit and the natural history of the condition; that need be considered equivalent to urgency; and that priority be defined in terms of urgency (or need with or without consideration of social factors.

Keywords: HEALTH; SERVICES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2000
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