Boris Sobolev is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia. Lisa Kuramoto is a Statistical Analyst with the Vancouver Coastal Health Services Research Institute.

From the reviews: "Sobolev and Kuramoto ... offer fellow researchers a guide to methodology for studying how long patients in a universal health-care system wait for elective or other non-emergency surgery. In addition to providing statistical tools, they set out the entire research process, from framing the question to interpreting results." (SciTech Book News, June, 2008)

• Data, Questions and Methods.- Health services research on access to care.- Waiting-time data used in this book.- Waits and outcomes: What should be reported?.- Waiting-time Studies.- Overview of waiting times and other variables.- Variation and access probabilities.- Factors influencing waiting times.- Surgery after target access time.- Adverse events while waiting.- Intermediate events.- Survival benefit of coronary artery bypass grafting.

Boris Sobolev is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia. Lisa Kuramoto is a Statistical Analyst with the Vancouver Coastal Health Services Research Institute.

From the reviews: "Sobolev and Kuramoto ... offer fellow researchers a guide to methodology for studying how long patients in a universal health-care system wait for elective or other non-emergency surgery. In addition to providing statistical tools, they set out the entire research process, from framing the question to interpreting results." (SciTech Book News, June, 2008)

• Data, Questions and Methods.- Health services research on access to care.- Waiting-time data used in this book.- Waits and outcomes: What should be reported?.- Waiting-time Studies.- Overview of waiting times and other variables.- Variation and access probabilities.- Factors influencing waiting times.- Surgery after target access time.- Adverse events while waiting.- Intermediate events.- Survival benefit of coronary artery bypass grafting.