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There’s not (typically) a regular measure of how much pain and disability a patient suffers while waiting for a hip replacement. It certainly would only show up
by twoodfin 5mo ago
There’s not (typically) a regular measure of how much pain and disability a patient suffers while waiting for a hip replacement. It certainly would only show up in mortality statistics massively attenuated.
- swatcoder 5mo agoSure there are. Population measures of morbidity, days of lost work, patient satisfaction, etc are all captured and studied. Do you have indications that those are worse where wait times happen to be higher, or so you just take it for granted that longer waits must mean worse net experience?
- twoodfin 5mo agoSorry, which measure most directly captures patient inconvenience & suffering due to wait times?
- beej71 5mo agoIt would be an enlightening experiment. "Wait 2 hours or pay $5000 to be seen now."
- twoodfin 5mo agoMany universal public systems (not all, see: Canada) effectively allow this through private plans and private providers that supplement the government benefits, often notably for speedier diagnostics and treatment.