The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has released a new report: Wait Times in Canada – A Comparison by Province, 2011.

The complete report is freely available from: https://secure.cihi.ca/estore/productFamily.htm?locale=en&pf=PFC1599 \

(To download the whole report, under “media type”, click on “Action: Download”)

Report description:

In 2004, Canada's first ministers agreed to reduce wait times in five priority areas: cancer treatment, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, joint replacement and sight restoration. They also agreed to work towards meeting evidence-based benchmarks—or targets—for medically acceptable waits, which were established in late 2005 for some priority procedures. CIHI was mandated to collect wait times information and monitor provincial progress in meeting benchmarks. Wait Times in Canada—A Comparison by Province, 2011 is CIHI's sixth annual report in this series.

Orvie Dingwall, BA, MLIS, AHIP

Outreach Services Librarian

Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library

University of Manitoba

email: orvie_dingwall@umanitoba.ca

phone: 204.977.5660

website: http://mhiknet.lib.umanitoba.ca/