Understanding Colonoscopy Wait Times
Colonoscopy services are provided at 12 acute care hospitals across the province.
Colonoscopy is used to screen for a variety of diseases, including colon cancer. Symptomatic patients with a high likelihood of cancer or inflammatory bowel disease based on clinical assessment may require a colonoscopy. A patient will be referred by a primary care physician to a specialist (gastroenterologist, internist, and surgeon) who will determine if the patient needs to undergo a colonoscopy procedure.
The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) represents more than 1,100 members across Canada, including physicians, basic scientists, and affiliated health care providers who work in the field of gastroenterology. This group is involved in research, education and patient care in all areas of digestive health and disease.
http://www.cag-acg.org/index.php
While there are no national benchmarks for colonoscopy, in 2006 the Canadian Association of Gastroenterologists (CAG) developed a set of consensus based access targets to identify medically acceptable wait time targets for colonoscopy.
An urgency classification is used by the specialist to determine the priority and the medically recommended timeframe in which patients should have their colonoscopy completed.
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2023-24
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q3 2022-23
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2022-23
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2022-23
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q4 2021-22
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q3 2021-22
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2021-22
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2021-22
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2020-21
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2020-21
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2019-20
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2019-20
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2018-19
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2018-19
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2017-18
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2017-18
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2016-17
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2016-17
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2015-16
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2015-16
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q4 2014-15
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q3 2014-15
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2014-15
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2014-15
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q4 2013-14
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q3 2013-14
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q2 2013-14
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q1 2013-14
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q4 2012-13
- Wait Time Information – Colonoscopy Q3 2012-13