Priority-setting for elective surgery procedures with waiting lists of the public healthcare system of Catalonia
Adam P, Alomar S, Espallargues M, Herdman M, Sanz L, Sola-Morales O, Tebe C
Record ID 32010000682
Catalan, English, Spanish
Authors' objectives:
To identify a number of criteria to set priorities between elective surgery interventions with waiting lists of the Catalan public healthcare system, as well as a number of weights associated to each criterion.
To define and categorize the identified criteria.
To classify the 30 interventions at force according to the identified criteria and assigned categories.
To rank the interventions according to a weighted sum of individual scorings obtained for each criterion.
Authors' recommendations:
The results presented in this report are a useful tool for healthcare decision-makers and responsible of waiting lists management in Catalonia to set priorities between elective surgery interventions with waiting lists. The ranking obtained in this report is valid for the 30 interventions at force in the moment of the analysis. Different analyses of construct validity, robustness of the basal scored list, match between expert groups and divergences with the results from the scientific literature show stability in the top four interventions of the ranking and the bottom three. Hence, while interventions in the intermediate ranking are sensitive to variations in the method, extremes of the ranking prove to be robust.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2010
URL for published report:
http://www.gencat.cat/salut/depsan/units/aatrm/pdf/prioritzacio_proc_llistesespera_aiaqs2010ca.pdf
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
Spain
MeSH Terms
- Humans
- Waiting Lists
Contact
Organisation Name:
Agencia de Qualitat i Avaluacio Sanitries de Catalunya
Contact Address:
Antoni Parada, CAHTA, Roc Boronat, 81-95 (2nd floor), 08005 Barcelona, Spain, Tel. +34 935 513 928, Fax: +34 935 517 510
Contact Name:
direccio@aatrm.catsalut.net / aparada@aatrm.catsalut.net
Contact Email:
direccio@aatrm.catsalut.net / aparada@aatrm.catsalut.net
Copyright:
Catalan Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality (CAHIAQ)
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