Time on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery in British Columbia, Canada, 1991-2000.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In British Columbia, Canada, all necessary medical services are funded publicly. Concerned with growing wait lists in the mid-1990s, the provincial government started providing extra funding for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) operations annually. Although aimed at improving access, it is not known whether supplementary funding changed the time that patients spent on wait lists for CABG. We sought to determine whether the period of registration on wait lists had an effect on time to isolated CABG and whether the period effect was similar across priority groups.

Methods

Using records from a population-based registry, we studied the wait-list time before and after supplementary funding became available. We compared the number of weeks from registration to sur

SUBMITTER: Levy AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1079832 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature