Objective The Western Canada Waiting List Project (WCWL) is a federally funded
partnership of 19 organizations, including medical associations, health authorities, ministries …

Background: Priority scoring tools are mooted as means for dealing with burgeoning elective
surgical waiting lists. There is ongoing development work in New Zealand, Canada and the …

Rationale, aims and objectives This paper deals with the problem of surgical waiting lists
and is aimed, in particular, at comparing two different prioritization approaches:(1) the …

Methods The panel developed and tested a collection of standardized clinical criteria for
setting priorities among patients awaiting hip and knee replacement. The criteria were …

Aims To assess the'generic surgical priority criteria'(GSPC) introduced into Auckland
Hospital by the Northern Division of the Transitional Health Authority in 1997 and compare it …

Rationale, aims and objectives An Achilles' heel of Canadian Medicare is long waits for
elective services. The Western Canada Waiting List (WCWL) project is a collaboration of 19 …

Explicitly queuing elective patients according to urgency of required treatment is generally
perceived as a method to facilitate access to care within a clinically appropriate time frame …

Patients waitlisted for elective general surgery in New Zealand used to be prioritised by
multiple tools that were inconsistent, did not reflect clinical judgement and were not …

Background: The New Zealand health reforms have resulted in the requirement that
surgeons utilize Clinical Priority Access Criteria (CPAC) to ration patient access to elective …

Aim: The aim of the present paper was to assess trends in clinician's utilization of urgency
categories for elective surgery. Methods: The present paper reviews the additions to the …