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Background Waiting lists should be managed as fairly as possible to ensure that patients with greater or more urgent needs receive services first. Patient prioritization refers to the process of ranking referrals in a certain order based on various criteria with the aim of improving fairness and equity in the delivery of care. Despite the widespread use of patient prioritization tools (PPTs) in healthcare...
Because of insufficient capacity of hospitals, all patients on waiting lists can't be treated immediately. Then, patients must be prioritized for treatment based on variety of factors. But, current decisions regarding patients' prioritization have been criticized as being highly subjective and inadequate to assess urgency and case-mix of patients. This study presents a new risk based prioritization...
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