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yes I don't understand this. No way is that 39 sqkm. It looks 100+

This says crossrail is 13 miles? This also doesn't seem right. I googled and it's more like 70.

The takeaway message (for me) is that an 18 week target for all patients is unlikely to be the best way to target scarce NHS resources. A research-based approach to balancing efficiency and equity would lead to a range of waiting time targets for different patients/conditions.

Their report shows that prioritising patients to maximise health may have adverse implications for inequalities york.ac.uk/media/che/RS...

A research project by other colleagues in
CHE (Naomi Gibbs et al) has looked at prioritising waiting lists between different types of treatments, for example, hip replacement vs heart surgery vs gall bladder removal.

This paper by Panos Kasteridis, Luigi Siciliani
and myself shows the potential health benefits of a shorter waiting time target for patients with the worst pre-operative health (and highest health need). york.ac.uk/media/che/CH...

Recent research from CHE highlights the potential benefits for equity and efficiency of prioritising the waiting list more effectively.

We don't know the population though do we? Can see from the ages and SDs that this looks like working age (perhaps middle-aged) adults. Perhaps its working age adults with a particular diagnosis/history? Then the variables could be quite well matched..

seems weird to do a t test on a function of two of the other variables for which t tests are also reported though..

So is it appropriate to do a t test on BMI? I'm not sure. Otherwise the only thing I noted in the figures was that for Total Cholesterol, the two group means did not seem (even roughly) equidistant from the overall mean, which seemed suspicious to me.