Waiting lists for health care: a necessary evil?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Reducing wait time from referral to first visit for community outpatient services may contribute to better health outcomes: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2018
   Pooled it
2. Improving access for community health and sub-acute outpatient services: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2016
   Trial
3. A new model of integrated primary-secondary care for complex diabetes in the community: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.Trials · 2013
   Trial
4. Review of referrals reveal the impact of referral content on the triage and management of ophthalmology wait lists.BMJ open · 2021
   Article
5. Discovering the impact of preceding units' characteristics on the wait time of cardiac surgery unit from statistic data.PloS one · 2011
   Article
6. The challenge of long waiting lists: how we implemented a GP referral system for non-urgent specialist' appointments at an Australian public hospital.BMC health services research · 2010
   Review
7. True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery.The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2006
   Article
8. Using administrative databases to measure waiting times for patients undergoing major cancer surgery in Ontario, 1993-2000.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2005
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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