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Mai 19, 2023 9:38AM

B.C.’s cross-border cancer care initiative—necessary, bold and hypocritical
Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
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B.C.’s cross-border cancer care initiative—necessary, bold and hypocritical

The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.

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cancer treatment, waiting for treatment, waiting for health care, cost of waiting for treatment, health care spending
Mai 17, 2023 2:30AM

Health-care wait times cost Canadians billions of dollars

Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua
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Health-care wait times cost Canadians billions of dollars

Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.

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waiting for treatment, waiting for health care, health care wait times, cost of waiting for treatment
Avril 27, 2023 5:30PM

Courts deal another blow to B.C. patients waiting for health care

Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
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Courts deal another blow to B.C. patients waiting for health care

Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.

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bc health care, waiting for health care, bc hospitals, waiting for treatment, healthcare performance
Avril 6, 2023 5:26PM

Supreme Court ruling ends hope for many patients waiting for care in Canada
Bacchus Barua, Nadeem Esmail
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Supreme Court ruling ends hope for many patients waiting for care in Canada

Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.

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waiting for medical care, waiting for health care, waiting for treatment, health care wait times
Avril 4, 2023 1:00AM

Tackling the Surgery Backlog in the Canadian Provinces: Some Lessons from International Experience
Yanick Labrie
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surgery wait lists, surgery wait, surgery wait times, waiting for medical care, waiting for treatment
Janvier 18, 2023 9:03AM

Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times
Tegan Hill, Bacchus Barua
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Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times

Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.

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health-care wait times in Canada, waiting for health care, healthcare performance, waiting for treatment
Décembre 8, 2022 1:00AM

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 Report
Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua
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Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 Report
Étiquettes:
health care wait times, health care waiting times, wait times, waiting for treatment, hospital wait times, surgery wait lists, waiting list, waiting for health care
Juillet 15, 2022 7:10PM

B.C. court denies patients the ability to seek private care

Bacchus Barua
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B.C. court denies patients the ability to seek private care

Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.

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private clinics, private health care, private health insurance, cost of waiting, waiting for treatment
Juillet 13, 2022 12:00PM

Alberta takes another step towards reducing health-care wait times

Bacchus Barua
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Alberta takes another step towards reducing health-care wait times

In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.

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waiting for treatment, hospital wait list, hospital wait times, health care wait times, waiting for health care, waiting for medical care
Juin 23, 2022 11:42AM

Patient ‘cost-sharing’ might help shorten wait times in Canada
Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir
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Patient ‘cost-sharing’ might help shorten wait times in Canada

The vast majority of universal health-care systems worldwide employ some form of cost-sharing.

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universal health care, cost-sharing, waiting for medical care, waiting for treatment, healthcare performance, health-care costs