Methods Early in 2001, at the Canmore General Hospital, Canmore, Alta., an expert-panel
working group, consisting of a community health service leader, operating-room nurse …

Surgeons and surgical programs encounter priority-setting challenges every day, such as in
regard to purchasing new technologies or managing waiting lists for elective surgery. The …

Introduction: The aims of this study were, within three Canadian health regions, to identify
existing resource management techniques, to elicit ways in which the current process of …

A significant mandate of Canadian regional health authorities is to set priorities and allocate
resources within a limited funding envelope. Program budgeting and marginal analysis is a …

OBJECTIVE: To assess critically the results of using three different approaches to planning
for the number of general surgeons in rural areas. DESIGN: Estimates of the number of …

T he provision of public hospital services inevitably involves managing the demand for these
services. This is usually achieved by rationing. Elective surgery is the easiest service for …

Abstract The University of Rochester, Department of Surgery, in response to an experimental
community-wide limit on hospital budgets, studied high-cost general surgical patients as a …

• Governments should fund health care systems to ensure timely completion of elective
surgeries while still ensuring that urgent surgeries can be accommodated.• Surgical …

This article reports on some of the factors that have advanced and impeded hospital
progress in moving from inpatient to outpatient surgery. Early on, patients, physicians, and …

Background Approximately 70% of hospitals today are part of larger health systems.
Proponents of hospital consolidation tout its potential to reduce health spending and …