Table 1

Waiting time reported by the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs for surgical outpatient examination and surgery in Norway, February 2008 [3].

Outpatient

Consultation

(weeks)

Outpatient

Surgery

(weeks)

Gallstones

2–22

2–30

Inguinal hernia

2–22

2–28

Pilonidal sinus

2–30

2–48

Augestad et al. BMC Surgery 2008 8:14   doi:10.1186/1471-2482-8-14