Long waiting lists in hospitals.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A non-homogeneous discrete time Markov model for admission scheduling and resource planning in a cost or capacity constrained healthcare system.Health care management science · 2010
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2. Process modeling of ICU patient flow: effect of daily load leveling of elective surgeries on ICU diversion.Journal of medical systems · 2009
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3. Risk of emergency admission while awaiting elective cholecystectomy.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2003
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4. Indications, Utility and Appropriateness of Echocardiography in Outpatient Cardiology.Journal of cardiovascular echography
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Corrections and comments

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  Booked inpatient admissions and hospital capacity: mathematical modelling study.2002

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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