Elective waiting times
October 16, 2012
LAST year 662,000 Australian
patients attended hospitals
nationwide for elective surgery
procedures.
The data comes from the latest
Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare report titled Australian
hospital statistics 2011-12: elective
surgery waiting times.
According to the report during
2011-12, half of patients waited 36
days or less for public elective
surgery, the same as in 2010-11,
but a rise from the median waiting
time in 2007-08 of 34 days.
Surgical specialties with the
longest median waiting times in
2011-12 were ophthalmology; ear,
nose and throat surgery; and
orthopaedic surgery (74, 66 and 63
days respectively), whilst
cardiothoracic surgery had the
shortest median waiting time (16
days)
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