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Differences in waiting times for elective admissions in NSW public hospitals: A decomposition analysis by non-clinical factors. CHERE Working Paper 2010/7 [PDF]
In the Australian public health system, access to elective surgery is rationed through provision of health care services, it is generally assumed that a patient?s waiting time and locations.
Elizabeth Savage +4 more
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Geographic Differences in Hospital Waiting Times [PDF]
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this paper we undertake a DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux reweighting approach to attribute variation in waiting time to clinical need or to discrimination.
Elizabeth Savage +4 more
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Waiting times and the decision to buy private health insurance. CHERE Working Paper 2010/9 [PDF]
Over 45% of Australians buy health insurance for private treatment in hospital. This is despite having access to universal and free public hospital treatment.
Elizabeth Savage +4 more
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, 2007 This paper charts the implementation and development of a referrals management system within a secondary care National Health Service (NHS) clinical psychology and counselling service over a period of approximately three years.
Willows, Jon +2 more
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Private health care as a supplement to a public health system with waiting time for treatment [PDF]
In this article the authors Michael Hoel and Erik Magnus Sæther consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided, and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Private health care without waiting time is an option
Sæther, Erik Magnus, Hoel, Michael
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Waiting time and socioeconomic status - an individual–level analysis [PDF]
Waiting time is a rationing mechanism that is used in publicly funded healthcare systems. From an equity viewpoint, it is regarded as preferable to co-payments. However, long waits are an indication of poor quality of service.
Monstad, Karin +2 more
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Hospital specialists' private practice and its impact on the number of NHS patients treated and on the delay for elective surgery. [PDF]
This paper analyses UK NHS waiting times and waiting lists for elective surgery looking at the hospital specialists' behaviour and the conflict of interest these may face when allowed to practice privately.
Antonia Morga, Ana Xavier
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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose between ...
Odd Rune Straume +2 more
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Clinics, 2011 BACKGROUND: Hospitals in countries with public health systems have recently adopted organizational changes to improve efficiency and resource allocation, and reducing inappropriate hospitalizations has been established as an important goal.
Xavier Bosch +4 more
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2017 Objective: Analyse the Queensland Dental Public Service waiting list from 2013 to 2015 while various funding agreements between the federal and state and territory governments were in place.
Ratilal Lalloo, Jeroen Kroon
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