Wait times affect kids too

Patient Flow Analysis in General Hospitals: How Clinical Disciplines Affect Outpatient Wait Times

Background: Overcrowding is an important problem for outpatient services in healthcare facilities. Patient flow analysis (PFA) is a useful method for identifying inefficiencies in and facilitating patient flow. Objective: PFA was used to estimate patient wait time and determine how different clinical disciplines impact wait times in the studied hospital.<...

Unacceptable emergency wait times.

Advertising Emergency Department Wait Times

Advertising emergency department (ED) wait times has become a common practice in the United States. Proponents of this practice state that it is a powerful marketing strategy that can help steer patients to the ED. Opponents worry about the risk to the public health that arises from a patient with an emergent condition self-triaging to a further hospital, problems with inaccuracy and lack of st...

[Don't wait until it is too late].

Over the past year I have worked with several managing partners in helping them transition from one set of leaders to another. The question I often get is when is the time right? Managing partners decide to pass the baton to the next generation of leaders at different times. Some decide it’s time when they are in their early or mid 50s since they want to do other things in life. Others will hol...

Wait times: the appropriateness of the methodology and how they affect patients.

T issue of the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS ) includes 2 articles on a common theme: waiting for surgery. They complement others recently published in CJS, including an article on prioritizing patients waiting for hip and knee arthroplasty. Written by Shortt and colleagues, the first of these 3 articles would imply that waiting periods are a standard feature of surgical care in Canada today...