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Sunday House Call #288, November 1, 2009
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Queensway Carleton Hospital Total Joint Assessment Clinic
Hip and knee replacement surgery is one of the areas targeted by Canada’s wait times strategy. For people suffering with osteoarthritic pain from damaged joints, waits of one to two years is not reasonable. Indeed the benchmark for the province Ontario is a maximum of six months wait. The Queensway Carleton hospital is the site…
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CIHI report on funding initiatives for wait times
A Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) study released on June 25, 2008 looked at the outcomes of providing funding in several key areas of health care provision: hip and knee replacements, sight restoration, cancer and cardiac revascularization. The study also looked at whether the focus on these areas had an effect on wait times…
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The human cost of wait times
Original broadcast date: January 20, 2008 Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Brian Day released a study produced for the Canadian Medical Association by the Centre for Spatial Economics, in Toronto during a Jan. 15 speech. The study claims that wait times in the four of the five targeted areas, joint replacement, sight restoration, cardiac bypass…
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How long do hip fracture patients age 65 and over have to wait for surgery?
How long do hip fracture patients age 65 and over have to wait for surgery? This answer and many others published by the Canadian Institute for Health Information in their report Health Indicators 2007 provides an overview of 40 health and health system performance factors from across the country. Jennifer Zelmer, Vice President of Research…
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Recommendations to ease emergency room overcrowding
Reports are surfacing of staff shortages in emergency rooms in smaller communities. There are backlogs of patients waiting in emergency rooms until they are admitted to a hospital ward acute care bed. It is a chain of events and circumstance stemming in part from a shortage of these acute care beds and the result is…