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Process modelling of NHS cardiovascular waiting lists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective To model the referral, diagnostic and treatment pathway for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the English National Health Service (NHS) to provide commissioners and managers with a methodology to optimise patient flow and reduce waiting lists ...
Chris Gale, Gianni Angelini, Ramesh Nadarajah, Rebecca Hoyle, Ben Gibbison, Katherine Cheema, Salvador Catsis, Alan R Champneys, Christine Currie, Jessica Enright, Mike Woodall   +10 more
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‘You’re on the waiting list’: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of young adults’ experiences of waiting lists within mental health services in the UK

PLoS ONE, 2022
Waiting lists in mental health services are currently considered too long. Lengthy waits of up to 18 weeks are commonly reported in the UK. Waiting lists have long been associated with a variety of negative psychological responses, however there is ...
Georgia Punton, Alyson L. Dodd, Andrew McNeill   +2 more
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Waiting Lists for Psychotherapy and Provider Attitudes Toward Low-Intensity Treatments as Potential Interventions: Survey Study

JMIR Formative Research, 2022
BackgroundCommon mental disorders, including depression and anxiety, are leading causes of disability worldwide. Digital mental health interventions, such as web-based self-help and other low-intensity treatments (LITs) that are ...
Allison Peipert, Anne C Krendl, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces   +2 more
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Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring [PDF]

Health Care Manag Sci, 2023
Prioritising elective surgery patients under the Australian three-category system is inherently subjective due to variability in clinician decision making and the potential for extraneous factors to influence category assignment.
J. Powers, J. McGree, D. Grieve, R. Aseervatham, S. Ryan, P. Corry   +5 more
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Actions of a regulatory nurse in the management of surgical waiting lists

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021
Objectives: to describe the actions of the regulatory nurse in the management of waiting lines for elective surgeries in a public hospital. Methods: this is an experience report about the actions of the regulatory nurse in the management of waiting ...
Rosa Ladi Lisbôa, Alexandra Jochims Kruel, Júlia Barreto Marciniak, Adriana Aparecida Paz   +3 more
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Patients’ Prioritization on Surgical Waiting Lists: A Decision Support System

Mathematics, 2021
Currently, in Chile, more than a quarter-million of patients are waiting for an elective surgical intervention. This is a worldwide reality, and it occurs as the demand for healthcare is vastly superior to the clinical resources in public systems ...
Fabián Silva-Aravena, Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda, César A. Astudillo, Luis González-Martínez, José G. Ledezma   +4 more
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Family Physicians Attaching New Patients From Centralized Waiting Lists: A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2018
Purpose: In response to more than 15% of Canadians not having a family physician, 7 provinces have implemented centralized waiting lists for unattached patients.
Mylaine Breton, Mélanie Ann Smithman, Nassera Touati, Antoine Boivin, Christine Loignon, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Kareen Nour, Catherine Lamoureux-Lamarche, Astrid Brousselle   +8 more
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Area deprivation and attachment to a general practitioner through centralized waiting lists: a cross-sectional study in Quebec, Canada

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background Access to primary healthcare is an important social determinant of health and having a regular general practitioner (GP) has been shown to improve access. In Canada, socio-economically disadvantaged patients are more likely to be unattached (i.
Mélanie Ann Smithman, Astrid Brousselle, Nassera Touati, Antoine Boivin, Kareen Nour, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Christine Loignon, Djamal Berbiche, Mylaine Breton   +8 more
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Reasons referred by individuals who were not on kidney transplantation waiting lists [PDF]

Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, 2022
Objective: To describe the reasons reported by individuals in hemodialysis that were not registered on kidney transplantation waiting lists. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted in six renal replacement therapy services in Rio Grande do Sul ...
Juliana Dall’Agnol, Eda Schwartz, Vanclei Zanin, Lílian Moura de Lima Spagnolo, Celmira Lange, Fernanda Lise   +5 more
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The true cost of hidden waiting times for cataract surgery in Australia

Public Health Research & Practice, 2022
Cataract surgery is a safe, effective and common elective procedure in Australia but access is inequitable. True waiting times for cataract care are undisclosed or inconsistently reported by governments. Estimates of true waiting times range from 4 to 30
Jessie Huang-Lung, Blake Angell , Anna Palagyi, Hugh R Taylor, Andrew White , Peter McCluskey, Lisa Keay |   +6 more
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