The Canadian Cardiovascular Society Access to Care Working Group was formed with a mandate to use the best science and information available to establish reasonable triage categories and safe wait times for common cardiovascular services and procedures through a series of commentaries. The present commentary discusses the rationale for access benchmarks for cardiac catheterization and revascula...

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society formed an Access to Care Working Group ('Working Group') in the spring of 2004. The mandate of the group was to use the best science and information to establish reasonable triage categories and safe wait times for access to common cardiovascular services and procedures. The present commentary presents the rationale for benchmarks for cardiac rehabilitation (...

Minimizing the total completion time (TCT) is essential in numerous manufacturing settings. Since such a problem considered NP-hard, it not likely that an optimal solution exists. Accordingly, many papers scheduling literature look for dominance relation as to minimizing TCT. Furthermore, due wide range of unpredictability settings, consider settings with uncertain and bounded setup times. None...

BACKGROUND Previous reports of lower triage acuity scores and longer Emergency Department (ED) wait times for African Americans compared to Caucasians had insufficient information to determine if this was due to bias or appropriately based on medical history and clinical presentation. OBJECTIVE (1) Determine if African Americans are assigned lower triage acuity scores (TAS) after adjusting fo...