In search of 'truth' and standards for reporting cardiac procedure waiting times.

摘要

In this issue of the The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Dr Munt and colleagues (pages 497-502) present an approach for deriving what they call 'true' waiting times for cardiac surgery for valvular aortic stenosis, and compare this to the waiting times that are usually reported for this procedure in British Columbia. This paper is notable because it rightly draws attention to the challenge of developing and using stan