Medical innovations and novel technologies stand to improve the return on high levels of
health spending in developed countries, particularly in cardiovascular care. However …

Prioritizing patients is a growing concern in healthcare. Once resources are limited,
prioritization is considered an effective and viable solution in provision of healthcare …

Background: Because tertiary centres are generally situated at urban sites, it is unclear
whether patients in rural areas have the same access to surgical services that patients in …

In this Special Issue of the Journal of Leadership in Health Services, we seek to focus on
both the challenges and opportunities of transformational change within healthcare and …

Background The objective of this study is to assess if waiting times for elective surgeries
within the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS) are influenced by the waiting times at …

Objective In this study, we investigated the demographic trends of patients undergoing
ophthalmic surgeries based on geographic region, priority level, and sex. Methods and …

Introduction We examined the association of socioeconomic status as defined by median
household income quartile (MHIQ) with mortality and readmission patterns following open …

Importance Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has severe functional and economic consequences.
The implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and demographic …

This paper examines whether standard scheduling processes for elective surgeries
inadvertently contribute to health inequalities across social groups. Using data from 169,510 …

Rural, remote, and northern communities (RRNC) have high rates of hospital readmissions
post-coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). I performed a case-control study to understand …