Table 2 Number of surgical indications (A), motives of list withdrawal (B), backlog (C), number of indications waiting in the list (D), and median (interquartile range) for the waiting time in days (E) according to the year. In B, we present the percentage of the reasons for list withdrawal
From: Surgical waiting lists and queue management in a Brazilian tertiary public hospital
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | p | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indicated(A) | 8830 | 16,469 | 17,303 | 15,110 | 8376 | 10,529 | 8534 | < 0.05 | ||||||||
List withdrawal (B) | Operated on | 1714 | 88% | 12,846 | 77% | 13,443 | 83% | 12,280 | 79% | 7254 | 85% | 8969 | 73% | 6489 | 84% | 0.677 |
Patient | 31 | 2% | 1165 | 7% | 872 | 5% | 945 | 6% | 287 | 3% | 849 | 7% | 352 | 5% | ||
Team | 37 | 2% | 1565 | 9% | 1027 | 6% | 1199 | 8% | 500 | 6% | 1475 | 12% | 532 | 7% | ||
Administrative | 1 | 0% | 121 | 1% | 183 | 1% | 186 | 1% | 51 | 1% | 97 | 1% | 25 | 0% | ||
Duplicated | 20 | 1% | 236 | 1% | 252 | 2% | 230 | 1% | 107 | 1% | 266 | 2% | 82 | 1% | ||
Previously operated on | 59 | 3% | 586 | 3% | 134 | 1% | 421 | 3% | 98 | 1% | 255 | 2% | 25 | 0% | ||
Death | 84 | 4% | 266 | 2% | 296 | 2% | 284 | 2% | 258 | 3% | 350 | 3% | 185 | 2% | ||
Subtotal | 1946 | 16,785 | 16,207 | 15,545 | 8555 | 12,261 | 7690 | < 0.05 | ||||||||
Backlog (C = A-B) | 6884 | -316 | 1096 | -435 | -179 | -1732 | 844 | |||||||||
Number of indications waiting in the list (D = C (previous year) + C (Current year) | 6884 | 6568 | 7664 | 7229 | 7050 | 5318 | 6162 | < 0.05 | ||||||||
Waiting time in days (E) - median (interquartile range) | 98(48;168) | 58(6;195) | 41(5;144) | 44(4;175) | 10(2;96) | 13(3;393) | 14(3;152) | < 0.05 | ||||||||