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Do waiting times reduce hospital costs? [PDF]
Using a sample of 137 hospitals over the period 1998-2002 in the English National Health Service, we estimate the elasticity of hospital costs with respect to waiting times.
Anderson Stanciole +2 more
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Incentives and Targets in Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [PDF]
Performance targets are commonly used in the public sector, despite their well known problems when organisations have multiple objectives and performance is difficult to measure.
Carol Propper +3 more
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Understanding random-walk dynamical phase coexistence through waiting times
Physical Review ResearchWe study the appearance of first-order dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) as “intermittent” coexisting phases in the fluctuations of random walks on graphs.
David C. Stuhrmann, Francesco Coghi
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Introducing waiting times for health care in a labor supply model for sickness absence
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2014 This paper studies the association between waiting times for different health care services and the duration of sick leave, using a Swedish register database supplemented with information from questionnaires for 3,653 employees.
Daniela Andrén, David Granlund
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Waiting Time as an Indicator for Health Services Under Strain: A Narrative Review
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2020 As pressure increases on public health systems globally, a potential consequence is that this is transferred to patients in the form of longer waiting times to receive care.
Daniel McIntyre BSc +1 more
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Public reporting on quality, waiting times and patient experience in 11 high-income countries.
Health Policy, 2016 This article maps current approaches to public reporting on waiting times, patient experience and aggregate measures of quality and safety in 11 high-income countries (Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden,
B. Rechel +16 more
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University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, 2017 As diagnostic imaging becomes a more prevalent tool in medicine, radiologists must increasingly be concerned with resource management. Wait times represent an important quality of care issue in medicine, especially in Canada, where the number of MRI and CT scanners is limited compared to other countries.
Logan Van Nynatten, Ariel Gershon
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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Waiting times for hospital appointments, treatment and/or surgery have become a major political and health service problem, leading to national maximum waiting times and policies to reduce waiting times.
Paul R. Ward +6 more
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The effects on waiting times of expanding provider choice:evidence from a policy experiment [PDF]
Long waiting times for inpatient treatment in the UK National Health Service have long been a source of great popular and political concern, and therefore a target for policy initiatives.
Diane Dawson +4 more
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Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Conductors
, 2012 Electron transport in mesoscopic conductors has traditionally involved investigations of the mean current and the fluctuations of the current. A complementary view on charge transport is provided by the distribution of waiting times between charge ...
Christian Flindt +9 more
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