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Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research
Sobolev, Boris; Kuramoto, Lisa
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Description for Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, 45 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 456.
In health care systems that provide universal access to care, efforts to contain costs for standby hospital capacity usually result in wait lists for surgical procedures. When access to health care is rationed by such wait lists, the length of time that patients are required to wait is usually uncertain. This uncertainty is a natural product of stochastic variation in service time and in the percentage of urgent cases in any queuing system. However, in a queue for elective (nonemergency) procedures, waiting-time uncertainty has many additionalcauses. Forinstance,decisionsofbothpatientsandcareprovidersmayoverrideaqueuediscipline. Alternatively, the lack of a hospital resource, such as beds in the intensive ... Read more
In health care systems that provide universal access to care, efforts to contain costs for standby hospital capacity usually result in wait lists for surgical procedures. When access to health care is rationed by such wait lists, the length of time that patients are required to wait is usually uncertain. This uncertainty is a natural product of stochastic variation in service time and in the percentage of urgent cases in any queuing system. However, in a queue for elective (nonemergency) procedures, waiting-time uncertainty has many additionalcauses. Forinstance,decisionsofbothpatientsandcareprovidersmayoverrideaqueuediscipline. Alternatively, the lack of a hospital resource, such as beds in the intensive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441926210
SKU
V9781441926210
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About Sobolev, Boris; Kuramoto, Lisa
Boris Sobolev is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia. Lisa Kuramoto is a Statistical Analyst with the Vancouver Coastal Health Services Research Institute.
Reviews for Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research
From the reviews: "Sobolev and Kuramoto … offer fellow researchers a guide to methodology for studying how long patients in a universal health-care system wait for elective or other non-emergency surgery. In addition to providing statistical tools, they set out the entire research process, from framing the question to interpreting results." (SciTech Book News, June, ... Read more