Fig. 1
From: Surgical waiting lists and queue management in a Brazilian tertiary public hospital
Distribution of the number of patients in the queue, indications, discharges (withdrawing from the queue), and operated on as a function of time. The horizontal dashed line represents the limit of patients in the institution’s queue as a condition for the queue management process. The horizontal dashed lines represent the period of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The arrows represent systemic interventions by the Administration to promote the review of the queues by the managers of the specialties