Can we develop wait lists for public health issues?

Wait lists have gained sharp prominence within the landscape of health care issues. Stories and statistics of how the common citizen has suffered and sometimes died while waiting for surgical and other medical procedures are legion, and they describe a failure of the health care system in a way that

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Canadian Medical Association Journal

• Publication date

  2006-03-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1503/CMAJ.050731PMID 16534086PMCID PMC1402367
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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