Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cancer Care Ontario, Queueing Theory, Radiation Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Denise Grafton

Document Summary

What should it do: this case addresses several policy issues, including: queuing theory, wait lists and how to manage them, human resources planning, payment mechanisms and incentives, and the ethics of rationing. Framing (problem identification): distribution: send patients to other centres where demand is not so great, hhr issues, address shortages. Improve pay: extend length of time imaging machines were running. Health policy lecture 8 notes what to do with the queue? (improving wait times: management and oversight: establish oversight body to address wait times. Key ideas in the cco approach to wait times management: queue: a line or sequence of patients waiting to be treated. Is a mathematical theory: has ethics all over it, e. g. , can pay more to get quicker, better service (e. g. , medcan) Identifying appropriate wait times: on a case-to-case basis, triage, measuring wait times appropriately, e. g. , 2 intervals established, time from in-take decision to treat actual treatment (e. g. , surgery)