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Valuing rural hospitals - the Australian experience
Introduction: Over many years in Australia, public hospitals were funded on historical grounds with about 40% of running costs provided by the national government.
Alan Chater, Samuel Webster
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We investigate the practice of framing a price as a discount from an earlier price, with information such as “was $200, now $100.” We discuss two reasons why a discounted price—rather than a merely low price—can make a consumer more willing to purchase.
Armstrong, Mark, Chen, Yongmin
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In a bid to improve quality of care, numerous countries have incorporated rewards and penalties into the funding and pricing of hospital services. This paper outlines recent advances in Australia to incorporate financial penalties for hospital acquired ...
Samuel B. G. Webster +4 more
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Aim: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE versus relevant comparators for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours located in the gastrointestinal tract (GI-NETs) and the pancreas (P-NETs).
Matthew Glover +3 more
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Ramsey prices, average cost prices and price sustainability [PDF]
Abstract We study the relationship between sustainable and average cost prices in the multiproduct case. It is shown that for the case where costs are separable only average cost prices can be sustainable even if demands are interdependent. As for the non-separable cost case the notion of average cost prices is axiomatically defined as an extension ...
Leonard J. Mirman +2 more
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Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, which is increased by the irrational use of antibiotics, for example, in the treatment of respiratory tract infections in community care.
Caroline Steigenberger +2 more
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Public spending on orphan medicines: a review of the literature
Background and objective Little is known about how much public payers spend on orphan medicines. This study aimed at identifying information on orphan medicine expenditure incurred by public payers that was published in literature globally and at ...
Margit Gombocz, Sabine Vogler
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AbstractImmigration is highly salient for voters in Europe and the USA and has generated considerable academic debate about the causes of preferences over immigration. This debate centers around the relative influences of sociotropic or personal economic considerations, as well as noneconomic threats.
Hix, Simon +2 more
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Price Points and Price Rigidity [PDF]
We study the link between price points and price rigidity using two data sets: weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at “9”; 9-ending prices are less likely to change than non-9-ending ...
Levy, Daniel +4 more
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Comparison of Cardiovascular Medicines Prices in Four European Countries
The aim of the current study was to compare pricing methodologies at the manufacturer, wholesale, and retail levels, and to estimate the price differences of AT1-receptor blockers (sartans), Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)—inhibitors, and their fixed-
Zornitsa Mitkova +8 more
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