Priority waiting lists: Is there a clinically ordered queue?

Is there a relation between waiting-list

Is there a relation between waiting-list length and surgery rate?

✍ Mai Nordberg; Ilmo Keskimǎki; Elina Hemminki 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 343 KB

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the differences in waiting-list lengths between hospitals can result from differences in demand for surgery. We compared waiting-list lengths for seven surgical procedures to the rates of these procedures. The numbers of procedures were obtained from