Understanding the experience of prescription charges in people living with parkinson's disease: a focus group study. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthReadman MR +7 more
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Rethinking Healthcare Co‐Payments to Improve Efficiency and Equity
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's healthcare system relies heavily on patient co‐payments, which account for around 16% of national health expenditure. Although this percentage is in line with the OECD average, the design of co‐payments is a major source of inequity and inefficiency.
Kees van Gool, Philip Haywood, Jane Hall
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Australia's Specialist Fee Failure: Three Principles for a Way Forward
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Setting Medicare Schedule Fees for specialist services in Australia is a pressing challenge. As specialist charges increasingly exceed government rebates, rising out‐of‐pocket costs threaten the core objective of universal health care.
Yuting Zhang +2 more
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The Availability and Pricing of Orthobiologic Knee Injections in the Chicago Metropolitan Area: A Market Assessment Study. [PDF]
Orthop J Sports MedKhan ZA +11 more
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Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This policy forum brings together four evidence‐based opinion articles that examine specialist affordability and access from contemporary and complementary perspectives. The authors argue that current policy settings fail to deliver coherent financial signals to patients and providers, inadequately protect vulnerable populations and fall short
Susan J. Méndez, Jongsay Yong
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The collaboration of surgical education fellows' (CoSEF) guide to designing, executing, and publishing surgical education research. [PDF]
Global Surg EducNaaseh A +8 more
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Price Transparency in Specialist Markets
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The market for non‐GP specialist services in Australia is characterised by widely dispersed fees and out‐ of‐ pocket costs, creating uncertainty about the price patients will have to pay. This is primarily driven by doctor‐level variation in pricing rather than patient characteristics, clinical risk or quality, which reflects a referral‐based ...
Susan J. Méndez +4 more
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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie +3 more
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Ensemble machine learning for predicting costs and cost influencers in breast cancer surgery. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv ResHe J +6 more
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson +2 more
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