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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 +8 more
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The effects on waiting times of expanding provider choice:evidence from a policy experiment [PDF]
Long waiting times for inpatient treatment in the UK National Health Service have long been a source of great popular and political concern, and therefore a target for policy initiatives.
Peter C Smith +4 more
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Modelling the Dynamics of a Public Health Care System: Evidence from Time-Series Data [PDF]
The English National Health Service was established in 1948, and has therefore yielded some long time series data on health system performance. Waiting times for inpatient care have been a persistent cause of policy concern since the creation of the NHS.
Peter C Smith +3 more
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Prioritization and waiting times for physiotherapy in private practice. A cross-sectional study
Fysioterapeuten, 2019 Purpose: Investigate characteristics of persons on the waiting lists for physiotherapy in private practice, how they are prioritized and how long they wait for physiotherapy. Design: Cross-sectional study.
Gro Askland Øyehaug +3 more
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RADIOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE SURGICAL WAITING LIST FOR THE TREATMENT OF SPINAL DEFORMITY
Coluna/ColumnaObjective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the implications of long waiting times on surgery lists for the treatment of patients with scoliosis. Methods: Radiographs of 87 patients with scoliosis who had been on the waiting list for surgery for ...
LEONARDO YUKIO JORGE ASANO +5 more
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Self-Regulation in Hospital Waiting Lists
, 2002 There is evidence that hospital waiting lists in the UK are resistant to shortening because reductions in length generate increases in referrals. We explored this concept by examining outpatient data for eight specialties in a large hospital centre over
D P Smethurst, H C Williams
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The Impact of a Glaucoma Nurse Specialist Role on Glaucoma Waiting Lists
, 2009 Over the last two decades there has been an increasing demand on health care services. This has led to increased waiting lists and waiting times to access public hospital services.
Carol Slight +2 more
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Attaching Patients in Primary Care Through Centralized Waiting Lists
Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé, 2019 Canada has the lowest rate of attachment to primary care providers among OECD countries, which makes access and continuity of care problematic. To address this important issue, seven Canadian provinces have implemented centralized waiting lists (CWLs ...
Mylaine Breton +13 more
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Prioritization of inquiries to physiotherapy in private practice. A text analysis
Fysioterapeuten, 2020 Purpose: Prioritization guidelines are supposed to support the physiotherapists in prioritizing inquiries. NOU 2018:16 has given three national criteria for prioritization: severity, benefit and resource. The purpose of this study is to look into how the
Gro Askland Øyehaug +2 more
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Hospital waiting lists explained
, 2008 The issue of public hospital waiting lists is never far from the headlines and with major reforms to public hospital funding being proposed, it will continue to generate considerable public interest.
Amanda Biggs
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