Prolonged wait time is associated with increased mortality for Chilean waiting list patients with non-prioritized conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most data on mortality and prognostic factors of universal healthcare waiting lists come from North America, Australasia, and Europe, with little information from South America. We aimed to determine the relationship between medical center-specific waiting time and waiting list mortality in Chile.

Method

Using data from all new patients listed in medical specialist waitlists for non-prioritized health problems from 2008 to 2015 in three geographically distant regions of Chile, we constructed hierarchical multivariate survival models to predict mortality risk at two years after registration for each medical center. Kendall rank correlation analysis was used to measure the association between medical center-specific mortality hazard ratio and waiting times.

Resul

SUBMITTER: Martinez DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6390314 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature