Queueing and Medical Wait Times
The Queueing and Medical Wait Times page
gives links to sites that are concerned with wait times in medical procedures. Although there may
mot be a visible queue, the waiting list for patients does form a queue. Sometimes service is in a
FCFS manner and sometimes patients are prioritized based on severity
and other factors.
Here are some links that may be of interest.
- Wait Times in Canada
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/qual/acces/wait-attente/index-eng.php
- Institute for Health Care Improvement. USA.
http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Flow/PatientFlow/Resources/
- Final Report of the Federal Advisor on Wait Times. Canada.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/pubs/system-regime/2006-wait-attente/index-eng.php
- Performance Analysis of a Medical Record Exchanges Model.
Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE, VOL. 11, NO. 2, MARCH 2007.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4233/4118167/04118183.pdf?isnumber=4118167&arnumber=4118183
- CPRN.Canadian Policy Research Networks.
- Male heart patients 'jump queue' (in the U.K.) 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1987556.stm
- Wait Times in US Health Care. Matthew Ygelsias. 2007. (with comments)
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/in_soviet_russia_line_waits_yo.php
- Hospital Waiting Time in the U.K.
http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/waitingtimes/2005/q1/index.html
- Waiting for Care in Canada: Findings from the Health Services Access Survey
http://www.longwoods.com/product.php?productid=18527&cat=458
- Wait Time Tables: —A Comparison by Province, 2008
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/Final_Wait_Times_AIB_EN_080229.pdf
- Waiting for Health Care in Canada: What We Know and What We Don't Know
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=PG_549_E&cw_topic=549&cw_rel=AR_1385_E#full
- Understanding Emergency Department Wait Times
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/Wait_times_e.pdf
- Wait Time Alliance for Timely Access to Health Care
http://www.waittimealliance.ca/
- A Different View of Queues in Ontario, by C. David Naylor
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/10/3/110.pdf
- Wading Through Wait Times, June 2007
http://healthcouncilcanada.ca/docs/rpts/2007/wait_times/hcc_wait-times-update_200706_FINAL%20ENGLISH.pdf
- The Taming of the Queue: Toward a Cure for Health Care Wait Times
http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/LTC_Waitlists/tame.pdf
- Waiting Too Long: Reducing and Better Managing Wait Times in BC
http://www.bcma.org/files/waiting_too_long.pdf
- Queue Fever Part 1, by David Ollier Weber
http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/PubsNewsArticle/
data/2006May/060509HHN_Online_Weber&domain=HHNMAG
- Queue Fever Part 2, by David Ollier Weber
http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/PubsNewsArticle/
data/2006May/060517HHN_Online_Weber&domain=HHNMAG
- Waiting Times for Elective Surgery, Australia
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/hse/ahs06-07/ahs06-07-c06.pdf
- Transient Probabilities for Queues with Applications to Hospital Waiting List Management, by Mark Joy and Simon Jones.
Article in HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, VOl 8, pp. 231–236, 2005
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x33813nk87268126/fulltext.pdf
- Shorter waiting times in Ireland's public system
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2006/august/shorter_waiting_time.php
- The Taming of the Queue-Is there anything to learn from the English Experience?
Presentation of March, 2010 by Matthew Swindells
http://www.chsrf.ca/thetamingofthequeue/PPT/TQ2010Swindells.pdf
- Queueing for beds, Andrei Andreevich Markov, and why I still love the
NHS
http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2369
Acknowledgements
Dr. Hlynka recognizes funding from NSERC and the
University of Windsor which assist in his queueing theory research.
Dr. Myron Hlynka is a member of the University of Windsor Queueing Group.