The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on several aspects of global healthcare
systems, particularly surgical services. New guidelines, resource scarcity, and an ever …

Background There is an increasing public, societal and policy imperative for effective
integration of healthcare delivery systems. Central to integration in healthcare is a focus on …

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

ObjetIvo El uso eficiente de pabellones destinados a cirugías electivas es fundamental para
resolver patologías en lista de espera quirúrgica. El objetivo general de este estudio es …

Aims Prolonged waits for hip and knee arthroplasty have raised questions about the equity
of current approaches to waiting list prioritization for those awaiting surgery. We therefore set …

As at August 2022, elective care waiting lists in England stood at 7 million open patient
pathways (NHS England 2022). This figure represents a record number of people1 waiting …

Introduction: COVID-19 and the Surgical Backlog COVID-19 was pronounced a global
pandemic in March 2020, leading to significant stress on the US health care system1 …

Background The health-related quality of life of patients awaiting a total knee arthroplasty
(TKA) deteriorates with increasing time to surgery and identification of those with the worst …

Prioritising elective surgery patients under the Australian three-category system is inherently
subjective due to variability in clinician decision making and the potential for extraneous …

Background The primary aim was to determine whether time spent awaiting primary total hip
arthroplasty (THA) affects patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) using the Oxford …