LHSC Multi-Organ Transplant Program: Pooling Ontario's Kidney Transplant Wait-Lists
In 2017, wait times for kidney transplants in Ontario were getting out of hand. While patients from London Health Sciences Centre's kidney transplant program in London, Ontario, had a reasonable wait of approximately one year, patients in Toronto's kidney transplant program waited almost four years. In an attempt to improve the overall wait times for all Ontario patients, the provincial Ministry of Health intended to merge the two currently independent programs and create a unified wait-list. Two doctors at London Health Sciences Centre were concerned about the effects of the merger for their patients in London, and asked an analytics specialist to determine the effects of the merger. Would the merger have the adverse outcome they expected for their patients' wait times?
【書誌情報】
ページ数:6ページ
サイズ:A4
商品番号:HBSP-W18821
発行日:2019/1/14
登録日:2019/4/3