Health insurance and health care utilization: Theory and evidence from Australia 1989-90, CHERE Discussion Paper No 44 [PDF]
The Australian hospital system is characterised by the co-existence of private hospitals, where individuals pay for services and public hospitals, where services are free to all but delivered after a waiting time.
Elizabeth Savage
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Outsourcing Private Machine Learning via Lightweight Secure Arithmetic Computation [PDF]
In several settings of practical interest, two parties seek to collaboratively perform inference on their private data using a public machine learning model. For instance, several hospitals might wish to share patient medical records for enhanced diagnostics and disease prediction, but may not be able to share data in the clear because of privacy ...
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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THE PERFORMANCE INDEX OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITALS OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN
Objective: To compare the performance index of private and public sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: In a tertiary care hospitals (one private and one public sector) of Karachi ...
Najm Us Saqib Khan+5 more
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The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals [PDF]
This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected
Ansgar Wübker+2 more
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Survey sabotage: Insights into reducing the risk of fraudulent responses in online surveys
Abstract Validity is a key element of many forms of research—particularly surveys, which are often used in health professions education research. A survey must accurately measure what it is intended to measure to be considered valid. This is becoming increasingly difficult in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), where “bots” (short for robots) are ...
James Bonnamy+3 more
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Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service [PDF]
A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents.
Beckert, Walter, Kelly, E.
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Supporting doctors' professional identity development through specialist training
Abstract Anatomy‐centric specialties such as surgery, radiology, and anatomical pathology (AP) have workforce shortages, with attrition during the training phase proposed as a contributing factor. Current understanding of the reasons behind trainee attrition is limited, and there have been calls to increase the depth and richness of research in this ...
Shemona Y. Rozario+3 more
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Private hospitals\' difficulties: Top managers\' perspective
Objective(s): To explore difficulties existing between private hospitals and other health related organizations such as Ministry of Health, Medical Council, Emergency Center, State Forensic Medical Organization, and insurance agencies in Tehran, Iran ...
Fatemeh Zariei Gavkani+3 more
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Profile of Private Hospitals in the Philippines [PDF]
As a recognition of the valuable role of private sector in the healthcare delivery system, this paper attempts to collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines.
Banzon, Eduardo P.+6 more
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