How established wait time benchmarks significantly underestimate total wait times for cardiac surgery

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Légaré, Jean Francois ^a   Li, Debbie ^a   Buth, Karen J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; CABG; Outcomes; Registry; Wait time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AMBULATORY CARE; CANADA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOVA SCOTIA; OFFICE VISITS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PILOT PROJECTS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77649199301     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(10)70337-8     Document Type: Article

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