Once upon a time, not too long ago, long waits and delays in the office were seen as something of a status symbol. A physician who had a long wait list for appointments or a long delay in the waiting room must have been an awfully good physician to have such “demand.” Even when patients began to complain, many groups were hardly eager to tackle the problem because there was a certain amount of ...

Fine Gael’s “FairCare” proposals, by contrast, represent the most fundamental reform of the health system since the formation of the State. We will abolish long-term waits on trolleys in A&E, slash waiting lists in hospitals, and eliminate the unfair and inefficient public/private divide by introducing Universal Health Insurance (UHI). We will also reform the Primary Care system to ensure that ...

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of home-care ’re-ablement’ services compared to usual care, or to a wait list control group, in terms of maintaining and improving the functional independence of older adults.

Sixty-seven phobic children, ages 6-15, were randomly assigned to a 2 X 3 factorial, repeated-measures, cowriate design which included two male therapists and three time-limited treatments: reciprocal inhibition, psychotherapy, and waiting list control. Following 24 sessions or 3-mo. wait and at 6-wk. follow-up, 5s were reassessed by an independent evaluator and by parents. Results indicated a ...

Many factors tend to reduce the efficiency of bed utilization in general hospitals. A numerically small, but clinically well-recognized, cause of wastage arises from the failure of waiting list patients to attend for admission when offered beds. The relative severity of the problem varies between clinical specialties, according to the proportions of total admissions accounted for by waiting lis...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the efficacy of the 6-hour REACH Forgiveness intervention among culturally diverse undergraduates. METHOD Female undergraduates (N = 102) and foreign extraction (46.2%) and domestic (43.8%) students in the United States were randomly assigned to immediate treatment or waitlist conditions. Treatment efficacy and the effect of culture on treatment response were...

Introduction Since 2001, the Danish healthcare system has been characterized by a focus on the reduction of waiting lists. By introducing activity-based funding of the regions and hospitals, there has been an increase in activity, a reasonably positive development in productivity, a high degree of patient and citizen satisfaction, and a successful reduction of waiting lists. One of the reasons ...

Introduction Cannabis remains the most used illegal substance across the globe, and negative outcomes and disorders are common. A spotlight therefore falls on reductions in cannabis use in people with cannabis use disorder. Current estimates of unassisted cessation or reduction in cannabis use rely on community surveys, and few studies focus on individuals with disorder. A key interest of servi...

The need for transplant organs has far outstripped the supply of available cadaveric organs. Hundreds of people on waiting lists, who could be saved by transplantation, die each year. This severe shortage has justified the extension of transplantation to the use of living donors, but there are still not enough organs to meet the need. This paper discusses the justification for changing policies...