Since 2004, when Canada’s first ministers agreed to work to reduce wait times, provincial governments have worked with CIHI to improve public wait time reporting for eight priority procedures: Hip replacement Knee replacement Hip fracture repair Cataract surgery Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) Radiation therapy Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Computed tomography (CT) scan Breast cancer surgery, colorectal surgery, lung cancer surgery prostate cancer surgery, bladder cancer surgery(since 2013) Wait time data provides a snapshot of how long patients wait for a priority procedure. It also shows the proportion of patients who receive care within the benchmark time frame.
Wait time for priority procedures in Canada