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Wait Time for Specialist Visit Overall Rank: 55
For people age 15 or older in local health region households who have had a visit to a specialist for a mental health disorder in the last 12 months: median wait time since patient and doctor decided patient needed to see a specialist (data source: Statistics Canada survey).
Domain : Accessibility
Clients/patients are able to obtain care and services at the right place and the right time, based on their respective needs. Accessibility would include such things as waiting times, physician availability, geographical proximity, extended service hours, etc.
Rationale
Primary Reference
Statistics Canada. (2006). Access to Health CareServices in Canada. (Catalogue no. 82-575-XIE). Ottawa, Statistics Canada Health Statistics Division.
Level of Evidence
III: Preliminary research evidence only or evidence based on consensus opinion only.

Summarized CommentsAdd Comment
  • In the absence of a measure of urgency and defined criteria for referral to a specialist, I find waiting times to be very poor measures.
  • Access measures for those in the population that do not routinely come into care (E.g., only 1 in 5 youth with mental illness are getting to MD) might be better than wait times.
  • DISTRIBUTION of wait times more relevant than median
  • Does this include being seen in the ER? How would that be factored in? In our area that is nearly the only way to access psychiatry for new patients
  • * This item has lower actionability in areas where there is a system-driven wait time.
Variation in Results
Ratings-based Rank
Relevance 65
Actionability 57
Overall Importance 52
 
Stakeholder Rank
Academics 53
Clinicians 90
Consumers 70
Decision Makers 23
 
Special Group Rank
First Nations 59
Rural Areas 60
Federal Stakeholders 30
Regional Rank
BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL YT NT NU
70 63 19 77 87 66 24 34 23 96 104 89 132
 
Overall Rank

      

55


SW01e (B1632)

 
Distribution of Survey Respondent Ratings
Relevance
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
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20
10
0
0.53 0.43 0.35 1.44 2.59 8.03 26.31 42.65 17.67
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Low High
Actionability
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
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0.53 0.43 0.89 1.92 7.3 12.43 36.64 28.41 11.45
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Low High
Overall Importance
100
90
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70
60
50
40
30
20
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1.92 30.39 67.69
3 2 1

3 = can live without
2 = nice to have
1 = indispensable
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