The data available on the Surgical Wait Times website includes only scheduled procedures and is updated on a monthly basis using data that comes from the Surgical Patient Registry (SPR). The SPR captures adult and pediatric surgical procedures that are typically completed in an operating room or another room that requires similar equipment and human resources and are scheduled in the hospital’s operating room booking system.
The wait time for a surgical procedure begins when the patient and the surgeon have decided that surgery is necessary and the booking information is received by the hospital. The wait time ends when the surgery is performed or when the case is removed from the wait list for reasons determined by the surgeon and the patient. The SPR allows health authorities to collect the dates that patients have identified as periods of time during which they are unavailable for surgery. These time periods are deducted from the patient’s total wait time for surgery.
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