Table 1.
Prioritisation instruments' criteria, levels and scores
| Prioritisation instruments | ||
| Criteria | Hip and knee arthroplasty | Cataract surgery |
| Severity of the disease: | -mild (0) | |
| -Arthroplasty: clinical and radiological exploration | -moderate (0) | -moderate (20) |
| -Cataract surgery: visual incapacity1 | -severe (18) | -severe (35) |
| -extremely severe (45) | ||
| Pain | -mild (0) | - |
| -moderate (17) | ||
| -severe (33) | ||
| Probability of recovery | -moderate (0) | -moderate (0) |
| -high (4) | -high (6) | |
| -very high (7) | ||
| Difficulty in doing ADL2 | -has some difficulty (0) | - has some difficulty (0) |
| -has great difficulty (10) | - has great difficulty (11) | |
| -Unable to do most ADL (20) | - Unable to do most ADL (15) | |
| Limitation on ability to work | -no/does not work (0) | - no/does not work (0) |
| -yes (10) | -yes (14) | |
| Has someone to look after the patient | -yes (0) | -yes (0) |
| -no (9) | -no (11) | |
| Be a care-giver | -no (0) | -no (0) |
| -yes (6) | -yes (8) | |
1 Best eye (BE) > 0.4 and worst eye (WE) >= 0.2 severity of the disease (SD) mild, BE > 0.4 and WE < 0.2 SD moderate, BE 0.2–0.4 and WE >= 0.2 or <0.2 SD severe, BE < 0.2 and WE >= 0.2 or <0.2 SD extremely severe
2 ADL: activities of daily living