ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2004
Surgical waiting lists are inevitable: time to focus on work undertaken.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions to reduce waiting times for elective procedures.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
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- Time-sensitive elements in elective treatment of urinary lithiasis: a narrative review.Translational andrology and urology · 2025Review
- High-intensity theatre (HIT) lists to tackle the elective surgery backlog.Nature reviews. Urology · 2023Article
- Patients waiting lists and the COVID-19 pandemic: A moral dilemma.Perioperative care and operating room management · 2021Article
- English NHS waiting times: what next?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2009Article
- The well-managed waiting list.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2004Article
- Surgical waiting lists are not inevitable.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2004Article
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