Waiting Lists
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY: Lengthy waiting times can be a major problem in walk-in sexual health clinics. They are stressful for both patients and staff and may lead to clients with significant health issues leaving the department before being seen ... Read more...

Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices.

14 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine why patients from ethnic minorities give poorer evaluations of primary health care than white patients. DESIGN: Cross sectional analysis of patient surveys collected in general practice. SETTING: 1098 English general practices ... Read more...

Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study.

Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether observable changes in waiting times occurred for certain key elective procedures between 1997 and 2007 in the English National Health Service and to analyse the distribution of those changes between socioeconomic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Waiting Lists'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Equity and NHS reforms. Waiting times are poor marker for equity. 3 Oct 2009
• Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic. 29 Sep 2009
• Canadian health care: a question of access. 29 Sep 2009
• Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices. 14 Sep 2009
• Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. Sep 2009
• Who should be delisted from urgent heart transplantation in Germany? 30 Aug 2009
• The effect of compensation status on waiting time for elective surgical lumbar discectomy. 30 Aug 2009
• Outpatient screening endoscopy: why not the standard of care? Interview by Paul Adams. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic: study of sources of variability and improvement factors. 30 Aug 2009
• Short-term results of total hip replacements performed by visiting surgeons at an NHS treatment centre. 30 Aug 2009
• Heart transplantation for adults with congenital heart disease: analysis of the United network for organ sharing database. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Baseline and 6-month B-type natriuretic peptide changes are independent predictors of events in patients with advanced heart failure awaiting cardiac transplantation. 30 Aug 2009
• Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and equity of donor lung allocation in the era of the lung allocation score: are we there yet? 30 Aug 2009
• Forecasting emergency department crowding: an external, multicenter evaluation. 27 Aug 2009
• Regional kidney allocation based only on full HLA-DR compatibility is not feasible. 25 Aug 2009
• Utilization of preoperative imaging in uterine cancer patients. 13 Aug 2009
• Hilar cholangiocarcinoma and liver transplantation. 13 Aug 2009
• Liver transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma. 13 Aug 2009
• Editorial comment. 12 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Waiting Lists'

Definition: Prospective patient listings for appointments.

Descriptor UI: D014850

Alternative terms: Waiting Lists; List, Waiting; Lists, Waiting; Waiting List;

Tree Number: N04.452.095.738;

Online Note: search APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES 1975-90

Technical Notes: no qualif