Waiting for Health Care in Canada: Problems and Prospects

M.L. Barer and S. Lewis

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

Abstract: A "waiting list" for health care is a list of patients awaiting a service such as surgery or an appointment with a cardiologist. But this doesn't tell us whether everyone who waits for a service is actually on a list, or how patients get on lists, or whether they all need to be there, or who manages the lists. It is also silent on whether physicians share lists so that patients get service through the shortest or fastest moving list.

Keywords: HEALTH; SERVICES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2000
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