PDF table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      • Background
        • Methods to measure access to elective surgery
        • This report
      • Current reporting of information on access to elective surgery
      • Limitations of the current measures of access to elective surgery
      • New measures
    2. Methods
    3. Measures of supply of elective surgery
      • Public and private elective surgery
      • Elective surgery separation rates
      • Public elective surgery
    4. Measures of demand for public elective surgery
      • Current reporting of elective surgery waiting times
      • New measures of demand
    5. Adverse events
      • Overview
      • Public elective surgery
    6. Future directions
  • End matter
    • Appendix - statistical tables
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Glossary
    • References