Clinical and investigative medicine. Médecine clinique et experimentale
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The advances of health informatics over the last 50 years are briefly sketched to reveal the pervasiveness of their applications in health and health care. The relations to research in health informatics and health are pointed out. ⋯ The impact of health informatics on medical education is further elaborated, and the requirements on infrastructure in support of this education are detailed. This infrastructure goes beyond instructional laboratories and includes academic units for medical informatics and, most importantly perhaps, funding resources and adjudication capacity for health informatics research and their integration into the Canadian research organization and the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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To review the variation in time spent on the waiting list for elective vascular surgery provided by a single team of specialists. ⋯ When queuing procedures are uniform, the waiting times for access to elective vascular surgery provided by the same team of specialists differ considerably for patients with equal surgical needs and urgency. It remains to be examined whether delays in scheduling operations and cancellations affect the waiting time after adjustment for urgency and comorbidity.