General Surgery
at Vancouver General
Wait Times Data By Surgeon
The table below shows the wait times for individual surgeons at this hospital.
Surgeons are listed according to their specialty, as reported by the hospital.
Surgeon
|
Patients Waiting
|
Median Wait Time (in weeks) for the 3 months ending Dec 31/09
|
|---|
Day Patients
|
Inpatients
|
|---|
P1 (Urgent)
|
P2 & P3
|
P1 (Urgent)
|
P2 & P3
|
|---|
Brown, David
|
4
|
--
|
14.2
|
--
|
4.9
|
Buczkowski, Andrzey
|
12
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
3.3
|
Cheifetz, Rona
|
8
|
--
|
12.9
|
--
|
2.6
|
Chung, Stephen
|
21
|
--
|
15.6
|
--
|
6
|
Davis, Noelle
|
18
|
--
|
2
|
--
|
2.6
|
Evans, David
|
4
|
--
|
25.9
|
--
|
21.7
|
Hameed, Syed
|
3
|
--
|
--
|
--
|
22
|
McGregor, Gregor
|
36
|
--
|
1.9
|
--
|
6
|
Meloche, Robert
|
9
|
--
|
14.6
|
--
|
5.7
|
Meneghetti, Adam
|
25
|
--
|
6.7
|
--
|
3
|
Nagy, Alexander
|
21
|
--
|
1.9
|
--
|
3.6
|
Panton, Ormond
|
33
|
--
|
8.3
|
--
|
19.9
|
Scudamore, Charles
|
59
|
--
|
10.9
|
--
|
13.1
|
Simons, Richard
|
16
|
--
|
3
|
--
|
21.9
|
Warnock, Garth
|
13
|
--
|
2
|
--
|
2.6
|
* Median wait times were overstated in the past, due to a reporting issue at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Health Sciences Centre. The issue has been resolved for all data from 2005/06 onward. This issue does not affect the total cases completed or the number of cases waiting.
Definitions
Median Wait Time: Of all the people who have had their surgery in the past three months, half will have waited less than the median wait time.
Priority 1 (Urgent) - in the opinion of the physician, the individual's health may
be significantly compromised if the procedure is not performed within about two
weeks of submitting the booking form to the hospital.
Priority 2 & 3 - in the opinion of the physician, the surgery can be appropriately
scheduled two weeks or more after submitting the booking form to the hospital.
Day Patient - procedure is performed in hospital but does not require an overnight stay.
Inpatient - procedure is performed in hospital, requires an overnight stay and
requires resources associated with greater severity of illness or more intensive surgery.
If Dashes - no patients had surgery in this category by this surgeon in the previous three months.
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