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The English National Health Service was established in 1948, and has therefore yielded some long time series data on health system performance. Waiting times for inpatient care have been a persistent cause of policy concern since the creation of the NHS. This paper develops a theoretical model...
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The length of waiting lists for treatment in the British National Health Service is an issue of current political and economic concern. This paper presents estimates of the costs to consumers of waiting lists for non-urgent medical care. The estimates are derived from data collected using...
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makers need access to information regarding both the relative effectiveness of treatment in treating the cancer and the …, one of the main cancer treatments available today. In doing so it reviews existing studies and attempts to account for … choices are to be properly informed, more and better cost information for all types of cancer treatment is needed …
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cancer of the head and neck who have undergone surgery or radiotherapy. Although the aim of treatment is to prolong life, the … head and neck cancer patients will always be difficult to recruit in numbers sufficient to provide statistical robustness … cancer, policy makers and clinicians making judgements about patient selection and treatment type will be doing so on the …
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