... to include private hospitals could lower Australians' reliance on private health insurance and reduce waiting lists, a health economics expert says. Professor ...
In a move that is sure to stir up debate, the British Columbia Automobile Association is offering so-called medical wait-list insurance for the first time ever in Canada.
... for converter boxes ahead of next month's transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover ...
... ," says Feasby, the senior author of "Management of MRI Wait Lists in Canada," published in Healthcare Policy ... Emery, one of the report's authors, says, "most MRI facilities in Canada have a substantial wait list problem. Improvement ...
... likely than whites to be placed on the kidney transplant waiting list, and this disparity was not associated with the distance to the nearest ... . They also found that as neighborhood poverty increased, the likelihood of being placed on the waiting list decreased for blacks compared with whites ...
A shortage of speech-language pathologists in Alberta has put some families on a two-year waiting list.
A cardiac surgeon at the Montreal Heart Institute says his hospital has adopted measures to get its wait list under control within six months.
Ottawa Public Health said 600 children are on a waiting list to have dental surgery at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, many of whom are from low-income families on social assistance.
... , more than 42% of patients would choose to remain on the waiting list rather than accept a "lower quality" liver according to the study appearing in the December issue of Liver ...
About 500 people in Miramichi have been dropped off the waiting list for physiotherapy because the Horizon Health Network says the list is so long, those patients will never get served.
A growing wait list and not enough funding are making it difficult for students with mental disabilities to pursue higher education in Nova Scotia, according to advocates.
... they used the devices outside of therapy. The other group was placed on a wait list for the therapy program and received no ... loss from macular diseases,” they conclude. “Because the waiting-list control patients demonstrated a decline ...
... risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 ... mortality should be considered when caring for patients waiting for kidney donations. The study also suggests that changes ...
... the psychological effects it has on those family members who survive. “Most people don’t realize that prior to wait-listing a patient as a lung transplant candidate ...
A Calgary-based insurance company is hoping to convince Canadians that timely access to medical care is worth a price. But the insurance coverage is attracting a fair bit of scrutiny from regulators ...
