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Timely Access to Child Health Services
Professor William Cole MSc, PhD, FRACS, FRCSCDirector, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Stollery Children’s HospitalUniversity of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaMedical Lead, Alberta Surgical Wait Times Project
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Background to this presentation
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Background to this presentation
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Content of presentation
• Children’s hospitals of Canada
• Timely access to clinical services is a key issue
• Patient focused approach (diagnosis- and acuity- based) to measure, monitor and manage waiting lists for any clinical service
• Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times Project
• Alberta Surgical Wait Times Project
• Summary
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Canadian pediatric hospitals
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Western Canadian Child Heart Network
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Timely access to clinical services
StartPrimaryCare
HospitalClinic
HospitalSurgery
Many steps for patients
Many delays possible
Today’s focus is on access to hospital-based scheduled (elective) surgical services
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Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times Project
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References
• Wright JG et al. Development of pediatric wait time access targets. Can J Surg 54:107-10;2011
• Wright JG et al. Waiting for children’s surgery in Canada: the Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times Project. CMAJ 183:E559-64;2011
• Fixler T et al. Pediatric surgical capacity and demand: analysis reveals a modest gap in capacity and additional efficiency opportunities. Healthc Q Spec no 3:28-34;2011
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Priorities & target times
• Acuity-based– Category 1 (urgent) <30 days– Category 2 (semi-urgent) <90 days– Category 3 (non-urgent) <365 days
• Diagnosis- & acuity-based– Pediatric Canadian Access Targets for Surgery
(pCATS) – evidence- and consensus-based
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pediatric Canadian Access Targets for Surgery - pCATS
• Standardized methodology for measuring and comparing pediatric surgical wait times across Canada
• Developed by over 100 pediatric surgeons across Canada from all surgical subspecialties and accepted by the Pediatric Surgical Chiefs of Canada
• Diagnosis- and acuity-based priority classification with associated maximum target times
• Evidence/consensus based• 857 diagnoses with associated W1 (clinic), W2
(scheduled OR) & E (emergency OR) access targets
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pCATS – Data Elements in Each Spreadsheet Row
Service
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W2 Priority Level
W2 Target Time
pCATS Code
eg. General Surgery
eg. Anatomical sites
eg. cancer
Pre-assigned code added to the OR booking form
Standardized description of diagnosis
Pre-assigned priority
Pre-assigned maximum target time from when the patient is ready for surgery
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OR booking form – patient registration
Surgeons’ offices
OR booking office
Site wait times lead
Surgical information system
Operating rooms
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How to Use pCATS in OR Booking• Surgeon selects unique pCATS code from specialty list• Surgeon adds pCATS code to the OR Booking Request Form• OR Booking Office staff enters pCATS code into their Surgical
Information System which links the code with the corresponding diagnosis, priority and maximum target time
• The priority dictates the “demand window” starting from the Patient Ready-to-Treat Date
Service Diagnosis pCATSCode Within
General Surgery Inguinal hernia: Incarcerated, non-reducible 3169 24 hours
General Surgery Inguinal hernia: <1 year non-incarcerated 3167 3 weeks
General Surgery Inguinal hernia: >1 year non-incarcerated 3168 3 months
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Surgery Demand Window ‐ Scheduling
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Maximum Target Time = 6 Weeks Demand Window
RTTD
RTTD + MTT
Patient Ready‐to‐Treat (RTT) Date + Maximum Target Time (MTT)
Benefits of model:1. Considers all cases in the queue2. Considers clinical acuity in prioritizing cases
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Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times ProjectWaiting and Completed Cases – National Data
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2007 to June 2012: 273,852 cases – 255,660 completed; 18,192 waiting
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Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times Project
• Strengths:– Standardized diagnoses and targets (pCATS)
– National reference data for measuring, monitoring & managing surgical wait times
– Essential as each Province has only 1 - 5 children’s hospitals
– Provides some analytical tools – capacity analysis
– Enables sharing of local problems & solutions
– Facilitates local management of surgical wait times
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Canadian Pediatric Surgical Wait Times Project
• Weaknesses:
– Future National funding uncertainty
– pCATS has not been updated
– Limited emphasis on management of waiting lists
– National improving access for cases completed associated with worsening access for cases waiting
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# days waiting for surgery
47 % decrease53101Stollery Children’s Hospital
61 % increase174108Benchmarking Hospitals (7)
Change July 2012
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waiting)Hospital
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Stollery Children’s Hospital
32% decrease in children waiting
24% increase in children completed
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Stollery Children’s Hospital
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Stollery - otolaryngology
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Stollery – plastic surgery
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Stollery - dentistry
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CMAJ 183:E559-64;2011
“Dental treatment requiring anesthesia uses the most operating room hours at the majority of pediatric hospitals in Canada. Our results identify dentistry as a high-priority area to address and underscore the importance of reducing the prevalence of dentaldecay.”
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Dental Care Plans
Collaboration – primary care teams, pediatricians, dentists & government
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Key Dates & Concepts in Wait Times Management
Wait 2A Wait 2B
Surgery Decision Date(STATIC)
Patient Ready Date(VARIABLE) OR Date
Tests & consultsAdjuvant therapiesStaged surgeryRepeat surgeryPatient availability
Maximum target time
>target time
Wait 2B used to measure actual surgical wait times.
80% 20%
Wait 2B
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Normalized wait times – scheduling queue
(Actual Wait time /max. target time)
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Normalized wait list example
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Surgical office report – patients listed in normalized wait times order with scheduling date range
Online, real time reports
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Chief of surgery summary report
Service A
Surgeon 1
Surgeon n
Total # waiting cases
eg. General Surgery
Total # waiting cases
Total # (%) > target time
Total # (%) > target time
All service A Total # waiting cases Total # (%) > target time
All services A-Z Total # waiting cases Total # (%) > target time
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Local management of surgical waiting lists
• Well maintained waiting lists – All patients for surgery registered– Patient ready-to-treat dates current– Appropriate pCATS code used
• Queue-based scheduling rather than opportunity-based (random scheduling) – ‘right patient at the right time’
• Identify suboptimal processes and resource limitations
• Identify, implement & evaluate solutions
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Capacity Analysis – OR Allocation
The pie chart shows that a significant % of Dr. X’s children are waiting too long for surgery. However, the Demand vs. Capacity chart shows that Dr. X has sufficient OR time to keep pace with surgical demand.
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Capacity Analysis – OR & Beds
Beyond target time2nd half of max. waiting time1st half of max. waiting time
Limited # beds for sleep apnea patients to stay overnight
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Our local strategies• Optimize processes• Resource changes:
– Anesthesia staffing– OR allocation – Moving from historical to patient
wait times – based allocation– 20% vs 40% summer OR closures– Doubling # of ORs (including an emergency OR)– Day ward to be also used as a 24 h surgical unit– Improved hospital bed usage– New cardiovascular ICU
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Dynamic OR template changes
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Alberta Surgical Wait Times Project
Adult tier 1 targets – CABG; cataracts; joint replacements; cancers
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Can J Cardiol 22:679-683;2006
Evidence- & consensus-based priority system – each diagnosis with several levels of acuity that determine the
priority & maximum target times
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Cancer Care Ontario – Surgical Targets
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Gynecology
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Electronic Surgical Access
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Summary• Timely access to clinical services is a key issue
• Patient focused approach (diagnosis- and acuity- based) to measure, monitor and manage waiting lists can be applied to any clinical service
• Quality of local data is critical for local change management and for central reporting
• Local change management (processes and resources) needs to be a major focus of wait times projects
• Hospitals need appropriate electronic tools for the measurement and management of waiting lists
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Timely Access to Child Health Services
Professor William Cole MSc, PhD, FRACS, FRCSCDirector, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Stollery Children’s HospitalUniversity of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaMedical Lead, Alberta Surgical Wait Times Project