This indicator measures the percentage of patients whose surgery was completed within the access target for the surgical service area/surgery being reported. This wait time represents the time, in days, from when the patient and surgeon decides to proceed with surgery to having the surgery completed. In this case, the higher the percentage completed the better. The surgical service area/surgery reported in Measuring Up includes general surgeries, cancer surgeries, hip and knee replacement surgeries.

Patients are assigned a priority level for their surgery by the physician based on clinical evidence. 

This indicator measures the percentage of patients that require a cardiac surgery or procedure and receive it within the provincial access target. Wait times were calculated from the day the patient and doctor decided to go ahead with the surgery or procedure, to the day it was performed. A higher percentage is better. The indicator is reported by priority level. Patients are assigned a priority level for the surgery based on their clinical assessment. The indicator is reported based on the institution where the surgery took place.

There are three cardiac surgeries or procedures reported Online:

1.A diagnostic cardiac catheterization (CATH), or angiography, is a catheter based diagnostic test that involves selectively injecting x-ray contrast dye into one or more coronary arteries in order to visualize blockages in the arteries and vessels that supply blood to the heart.

2.A percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), or angioplasty, is a procedure that involves using a catheter to insert a stent that opens blocked blood vessels in the coronary arteries.

3.Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is a surgical procedure performed on patients with coronary artery disease to bypass areas of blockage. Blood vessels, most commonly from the legs or chest wall, are grafted onto the heart to allow blood to flow past diseased heart vessels.