Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England
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Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England.
A number of OECD countries have introduced waiting time prioritisation policies which give explicit priority to severely ill patients with high marginal disutility of waiting. There is however little empirical evidence on how patients are actually prioritised. We exploit a unique opportunity to investigate this issue using a large national dataset with accurate measures of severity on nearly 40...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.007