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Performance Indicators - Wait Times

The Hospital takes part in the Ontario Ministry and Health and Long-Term Care's provincial plan to shorten hospital wait times. The figures below are based on information we put together and give to the Ministry.

The Ministry's website has more information:

Interpretation

Our wait times for cardiac bypass surgery, cataract surgery and hip and knee replacements are significantly shorter than the provincial targets for these services.

The wait times reported for MRI and CT scans show elective, non-urgent cases only. Because St. Michael's Hospital is a trauma centre and a referral hospital, we provide a large number of urgent MRI and CT scans. These scans require complex and time-consuming work, due to the severity of many patients' injuries. The Hospital meets the provincial targets for the majority of these urgent scans, which results in our wait times for non-urgent, elective cases being more than the provincial comparator. Our wait times for non-urgent, elective MRI and CT scans are comparable to hospitals in similar situations.

Unfortunately, the data needed to calculate/determine if our scores are statistically different from the provincial comparator is not available for all of the wait times listed.

Key

Significantly better than comparator At or better than comparator Worse than comparator Significantly worse than comparator
Technical definitions

 

Wait Times (April - June 2008)

Program SMH Wait Time (in days) Provincial Wait Time (in days) Provincial comparator (in days)
Cancer Surgery
Breast Cancer 36 37 84
Gastrointestinal 31 45 84
Genitourinary 74 67 84
Head and Neck 36 60 84
Neurological 65 57 84
Thyroid and Endocrine 78 105 84
Cardiac
Angiography 12 25 N/A
Angioplasty 8 14 N/A
Bypass Surgery 38 50 182
Cataract Surgery
Cataract Surgery 77 125 182
Diagnostic Scans
MRI 148 98 28
CT 62 47 28
Joint Replacement
Joint Hip Replacement 92 188 182
Joint Knee Replacement 116 230 182