Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this article, we undertake a DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux reweighting approach to attribute variation in waiting time to clinical need or to discrimination. Using data from NSW public patients in 2004-2005, we find the discrimination effect dominates clinical need especially in the upper tail of the waiting time distribution. We find evidence of favourable treatment of patients who reside in remote areas and discrimination in favour of patients residing in particular Area Health Services. These findings have policy implications for the design of equitable quality targets for public hospitals. © 2012 The Economic Society of Australia
Summary How much elective surgery was provided? In 2014-15, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitt...
The issue of public hospital waiting lists is never far from the headlines and with major reforms to...
Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national heal...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this p...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this a...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this a...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this p...
The Productivity Commission (2008) identified waiting times for elective surgery as a measure of gov...
An average patient waits between 2 and 3 months for an elective procedure in Australian public hospi...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
The New Zealand health system is two-tiered with elective treatments are performed by both publicly ...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
In 2011-12, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitted about 662,000 patients from elective surgery w...
Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national heal...
Summary How much elective surgery was provided? In 2014-15, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitt...
The issue of public hospital waiting lists is never far from the headlines and with major reforms to...
Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national heal...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this p...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this a...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this a...
Access to elective surgery in Australian public hospitals is rationed using waiting lists. In this p...
The Productivity Commission (2008) identified waiting times for elective surgery as a measure of gov...
An average patient waits between 2 and 3 months for an elective procedure in Australian public hospi...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
The New Zealand health system is two-tiered with elective treatments are performed by both publicly ...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
This article studies the effects of waiting times on the demand and supply of elective surgery in NS...
In 2011-12, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitted about 662,000 patients from elective surgery w...
Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national heal...
Summary How much elective surgery was provided? In 2014-15, Australia\u27s public hospitals admitt...
The issue of public hospital waiting lists is never far from the headlines and with major reforms to...
Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national heal...