Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Endometriosis, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
15 Oct 2017
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Gp referral to specialist treatment) the shortest wait is in on 7. 2 weeks. 10-15 years; hopefully will see a trend of improvement. More recently cad healthcare system is not as good as we think. We are at a point where the issue is getting so bad that something has to happen. Canadians have the longest waits across 10 countries (netherlends, uk, usa, sweden, etc) 36% of patients wait longer than a month internationally. 56% of patients wait longer than a month in canada. Bc average wait is 24 weeks low of 2 weeks and a high of 8 weeks. Wait times by speciality: while the median wait from gp treatment was 20 weeks, treatment by a medical oncologist: 3. 7 weeks, treatment by a plastic surgeon: 25. 9 weeks, treatment by a neurologist: 46. 9 weeks (^19. 3 weeks) Neurosurgery had the largest increases from year to year. Gynecology, internal medicine and cvd surgery all decreased in their wait times from 1. 5-2 weeks.
