Percentage of patients ranking each acceptability survey response based on their actual waiting time for surgery
| Survey response* | Patient group; wait for surgery, mo; % (and no.) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | Urban | All patients | ||||||||||
| <6 | 6–12 | >12 | All | <6 | 6–12 | >12 | All | <6 | 6–12 | >12 | All | |
| It was acceptable and I had no problems with it | 25 (5) | 27 (14) | 67 (4) | 29 (23) | 38 (6) | 10 ( 6) | 13 ( 3) | 15 (15) | 31 (11) | 18 (20) | 23 ( 7) | 22 (38) |
| It was acceptable given the current problems with the health care system | 35 (7) | 25 (13) | 17 (1) | 27 (21) | 25 (4) | 24 (14) | 42 (10) | 29 (28) | 31 (11) | 25 (27) | 37 (11) | 28 (49) |
| I didn’t like it but I could live with it | 15 (3) | 31 (16) | 17 (1) | 26 (20) | 0 (0) | 41 (24) | 25 ( 6) | 31 (30) | 8 ( 3) | 36 (40) | 23 ( 7) | 28 (50) |
| I didn’t like it and I became increasingly frustrated | 20 (4) | 12 ( 6) | 0 (0) | 13 (10) | 19 (3) | 19 (11) | 8 ( 2) | 16 (16) | 19 ( 7) | 15 (17) | 7 ( 2) | 15 (26) |
| It was unacceptable | 5 (1) | 6 ( 3) | 0 (0) | 5 ( 4) | 19 (3) | 5 ( 3) | 13 ( 3) | 9 ( 9) | 11 ( 4) | 5 ( 6) | 10 ( 3) | 7 (13) |
↵* Available survey responses (n = 176) to the question “Please check the most appropriate box below that describes how you felt about the length of your wait for surgery?”