Patient prioritisation methods to shorten waiting times for elective surgery: A systematic review of how to improve access to surgery

• Dimuthu Rathnayake ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rrathnayake01@qub.ac.uk

  Current address: Centre for Public Health, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queen’s University Belfast, Royal Hospitals, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Centre of Public Health, School of Medicine Dentistry and Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3919-6824

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• Mike Clarke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Centre for Public Health, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queen’s University Belfast, Royal Hospitals, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Centre of Public Health, School of Medicine Dentistry and Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Viraj Jayasinghe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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