Article ID: | iaor20003563 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 95 |
End Page Number: | 100 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
Authors: | Rivett Patrick, Anglin Timothy, Meyer Andrew |
Keywords: | queues: applications |
The population of Bury and Rochdale has a much higher rate of Coronary Heart Disease than the national average. This paper develops an approach, based on the Ramingham score method, of making patients aware in a lucid manner of their risk of suffering a fatal heart attack by assigning them a position in a queue of people who are similar to them so far as non-modifiable risk factors are concerned.