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10.09.2008 13:38

[color=#FF0000]Für alle die nach Kanada auswandern möchten,denen sollte es Bewußtsein das das Gesundheitsystem in Canada nicht das ist was man in DE gewöhnt ist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hier ein paar Info in englisch von CBC.[/color]

Wait for beds varies dramatically among Canadian hospitals: report
Last Updated: Thursday, October 18, 2007 | 1:47 PM ET
CBC News
Half of Canadian patients admitted to hospitals are waiting nearly two hours for a bed, research released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information suggests.

The report found that in 2005, half of all patients admitted to 277 Canadian hospitals outside of Quebec waited 1.7 hours for a bed after being admitted.

Patients with the longest waits tended to be older and have multiple medical problems, says the report.
(CBC) Ten per cent of patients were transferred to acute care beds immediately.

But half of patients waited longer than 1.7 hours, with ten per cent waiting 15.1 hours or more and four per cent waiting more than 24 hours.

Patients with the longest waits tended to be older and have multiple medical problems, says the report, titled "Understanding Emergency Department Wait Times to Inpatient Beds and Patient Flow."

The report found that each year, Canadians make 14 million visits to hospital emergency rooms, and one million are admitted.

Seasonal variations evident: study

Median bed wait times are generally shortest from July to September and longer during fall and winter seasons for medium and large community and teaching hospitals, the report found.

"The summer months – July and August – had the shortest wait times," Heather Dawson, CIHI's manager, health services and research, told CBCNews.ca Thursday. "The longest waits were in February – and then we have another peak in December."

The authors believe these variations may reflect hospital operational planning as well as changes in hospitalizations over the year. Dawson says that flu season and cardiovascular problems increase in the winter months.

The report also found the type of hospital affects access to beds.

Admitted patients faced a median wait time of 18 minutes for a bed at a small community hospital, defined as fewer than 50 beds, while admitted patients could linger for a median wait time of 2.1 hours at hospitals with 200 or more beds.

That median wait time extended to 2.3 hours in teaching hospitals.

For some patients in larger community and teaching hospitals, the waits were much longer.

Five per cent of these patients waited more than 24 hours for acute care beds, compared to about 1 per cent of patients in small hospitals.

"Research shows that many factors outside the emergency department, such as how inpatient services are organized and access to care beyond the hospital's walls, can affect how long patients wait for beds," said Dr. Michael Schull, an emergency department physician at Sunnybrook & Women's Health Science Centre in Toronto, in a release