In contrast, VAD support could preferentially be provided to patients who have a higher waiting-list mortality, such as elderly persons with low body weight, elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, or previously failed HT who do not yet have critical INTERMACS profile 1 or 2 status.
IPF patients also have a higher wait-list mortality compared to other diagnoses.
Female patients had higher wait times to see a rheumatologist, plastic or orthopedic surgeon, while male patients had a higher wait time for general surgery.
Studies suggest that older persons with multi-morbidity can experience difficulty feeling involved in their own care because of poor care coordination and a high waiting time [ 16, 17].
If you get a systolic reading of 180 or higher, or a diastolic reading of 110 or higher, wait a few minutes then check your blood pressure again.
Finland and the United Kingdom were the countries with the highest waiting times.
To the Editor: Never mind "upcoding" (seeking a higher reimbursement); wait till you see the "downcoding" of the humanity in the patient-doctor encounter.
A higher cost of waiting (k) or a higher value of production (x) leads to less discrimination, since the cost of discriminating is waiting for the next worker to come along if a B worker is denied the job.
Prior to pregnancy, obese women more often received infertility treatment than other women, and among women with planned pregnancies, obese women had a higher risk of waiting more than one year to become pregnant (Table 2).
Education is also associated with a higher likelihood of waiting longer (column 3), but wealth does not appear to have an independent effect (columns 4 5).
With just demographic controls (column 2), neither risk category is statistically significant, but being female and residing in Ibadan is associated with a higher likelihood of waiting at least three days.
