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| Title |
Waiting to see the specialist: patient and provider characteristics of wait times from primary to specialty care
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-15-16 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Liisa Jaakkimainen, Richard Glazier, Jan Barnsley, Erin Salkeld, Hong Lu, Karen Tu |
| Abstract |
Wait times are an important measure of access to various health care sectors and from a patient's perspective include several stages in their care. While mechanisms to improve wait times from specialty care have been developed across Canada, little is known about wait times from primary to specialty care. Our objectives were to calculate the wait times from when a referral is made by a family physician (FP) to when a patient sees a specialist physician and examine patient and provider factors related to these wait times. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 3 | 18% |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| Spain | 2 | 12% |
| Comoros | 1 | 6% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 59% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 24% |
| Scientists | 2 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 139 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Rwanda | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 134 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 24% |
| Researcher | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 8% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 27 | 19% |
| Unknown | 25 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 46 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 5% |
| Engineering | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 12% |
| Unknown | 39 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 April 2015.
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#3,039,761
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#375
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#34,179
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#7
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