More procedures but wait times for elective surgery remain long
The headline that caught my eye – “Hip, knee replacements spike in Atlantic Canada”- looked like a good news story. The gist of the June 21 Chronicle-Herald piece, based on a report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), was that between 2013 and 2018 the increase in orthopaedic surgeries in three of the four Atlantic Provinces exceeded the 17 per cent national average increase. Newfoundland and Labrador had the biggest increase of any province – 29 per cent – followed by Nova Scotia with a 25 per cent jump and New Brunswick, up 19 per cent. Prince...
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