ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2004
Waiting for an operation: parents' perspectives.
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- Incidence, causes and pattern of cancellation of elective surgical operations in a university teaching hospital in the Lake Zone, Tanzania.African health sciences · 2011Article
- Waiting for children's surgery in Canada: the Canadian Paediatric Surgical Wait Times project.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2011Article
- Empirically derived maximal acceptable wait time for surgery to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2011Article
- Impact of wait time on outcome for inguinal hernia repair in infants.Pediatric surgery international · 2009Article
- Children are waiting for care and answers.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008Article
- Risk of incarceration of inguinal hernia among infants and young children awaiting elective surgery.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008Article
- Canadian consensus on medically acceptable wait times for digestive health care.Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie · 2006Article
- Wait times: the appropriateness of the methodology and how they affect patients.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2004Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine parents' attitudes toward and acceptance of waiting times for their child's operation.
designWaiting times were measured by a cross-sectional method. A descriptive survey was conducted of families with a child waiting for a non-urgent operation.
settingA university teaching hospital. SUBJECTS: Parents of children (age < 20 yr) waiting for non-urgent pediatric general-surgery operations.
main outcome measuresParents' concerns and attitudes about waiting for their child's operation, how it was affecting the child and family, how urgent they felt the need for surgery was, and what they thought was a reasonable maximum waiting period.
resultsOf 89 patients waiting for non-urgent pediatric general-surgery operations at the time of the survey, 61% had been waiting > 6 months and 30% > 12 months. Of the 57 families (64%) who returned completed surveys, 94% reported the wait to be emotionally stressful for the family; 81.5% expected their child's quality of life would improve after the operation. As for length of wait, 83% felt that > 3 months was unacceptable, and 98% > 6 months.
conclusionsParents of children waiting for pediatric general surgery operations thought that the need for the operation was significantly more urgent then their classification of elective. They felt that waiting periods should not exceed 3 months. Long waiting periods are stressful for both family and child. Parental perceptions are important when considering strategies for wait-list management.
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