Utilization of public and private healthcare facilities: patient choice

A survey assessing patient satisfaction at public and private healthcare facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare∗

We compare healthcare spending in public and private Medicare using newly available claims data from Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers. MA insurer revenues are 30 percent higher than their healthcare spending. Healthcare spending is 25 percent lower for MA enrollees than for enrollees in traditional Medicare (TM) in the same county with the same risk score. Spending differences between MA and TM...

Private Public Choice

The fields of social choice theory and mechanism design deal with the aggregation of conflicting preferences in a group of agents, may they be electronic or human. Two central problems in these areas are the social choice problem and the mechanism design problem. We argue that the protection of individual preferences has not been considered so far and introduce the preference protection problem...

Public views on healthcare performance indicators and patient choice.

Patients on certain waiting lists in the UK National Health Service (NHS) are now offered the choice of persevering with their home hospital or switching to another hospital where they will be treated on a guaranteed date. Such decisions require knowledge of performance. We used facilitated focus groups to investigate the views of patients and members of the public on publication of information...

Nurses’ sharps, including needlestick, injuries in public and private healthcare facilities in New South Wales, Australia

Background: The aim of this paper is to determine factors associated with sharps-related injury rates in nurses by analysing the combined data from two state-wide cross-sectional studies of nurses and comparing rates between public and private sectors and between different nurse practice areas in NSW. Methods: The data from two studies conducted in 2006 and 2007 were combined for 44 similar dat...