eMJA: Management of waiting lists needs sound data

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Management of waiting lists needs sound data

Andrea J Curtis, Johannes U Stoelwinder and John J McNeil

MJA 2009; 191 (8): 423-424

Vulnerability to data manipulation is only one of many problems compromising the use of elective surgery waiting times to assess health system performance

The recent controversy in Victoria over the manipulation of waiting lists in a number of public hospitals has focused attention again on the problems associated with a performance management system that is not underpinned by the collection and reporting of sound data.

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