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Time on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery in British Columbia, Canada, 1991 – 2000

Adrian R Levy1,2*, Boris G Sobolev1,3, Robert Hayden4,5, Michael Kiely5, J M FitzGerald1,3 and Martin T Schechter1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2 Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

3 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

4 Department of Surgery, Royal Columbian Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

5 British Columbia Cardiac Registries, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

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BMC Health Services Research 2005, 5:22 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-5-22

Published: 14 March 2005

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Additional File 1:

The Microsoft® Word 2002 file "BC consensus guidelines for CABG priority.doc" shows the guidelines used by British Columbian cardiac surgeons for assigning priority to patients registered for coronary artery bypass grafting.

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