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Objective General practitioners (GPs) are the main providers of cervical screening in Australia and are crucial to the successful implementation of the National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP). This study assesses the views of GPs about the value of the Pap smear tests, their knowledge of the...
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Limits on health care resources mean that resource allocation decisions should be guided by considerations of costs in relation to benefits. A method of economic evaluation, (cost utility analysis) was used to evaluate the costs and benefits of a physiotherapy outpatients department. The quality...
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An evaluation of the Fractured Hip Management Program was conducted, in order to assess its cost effectiveness relative to treatment of these patients without the program. A before-and-after study design was used to identify the impact of the program on the length of hospital stay and outcome,...
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Structural and micro-economic reforms have been recommended for hospitals as part of an overall scheme of health care reform. One of the recommended reforms, clinical budgeting, is a health services adaptation of transfer pricing, which is used routinely in commercial enterprises. It involves...
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Nursing shortages are commonly observed features of hospital systems in Australia, Europe and the United States. To date there has been very little research on the effects of hospital characteristics on the retention of the nursing staff. In this paper we match individual data on registered...
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The topic of this paper is whether it is possible, given the current state of knowledge and technology, to design the appropriate market structure for managed competition. The next section reviews market failure in the private health insurance market. The subsequent two sections describe the...
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The Oregon Experiment is an attempt to provide universal access to health care while achieving budgetary caps on expenditure. The appeal of the experiment lies in its explicit approach to rationing health care within a framework of cost effectiveness analysis and its involvement of the community...
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It has been observed that specialist physicians who work in private hospitals are usually paid by fee-for-service while specialist physicians who work in public hospitals are usually paid by salary. This paper provides an explanation for this observation. Essentially, fee-for-service aligns the...
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While there are many published economic evaluations of health care, few allow the reader to understand the practice of costing health care programmes. The aim of this document is to fill this gap. In the document, the principles of how to cost health care for economic evaluation are outlined....
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The domiciliary after hours nursing service (AHNS) of the 4C program in Western Sydney is registering approximately 550 people per year. In this discussion paper, the results of an evaluation of the AHNS are reported. The service caters for clients with a variety of needs, providing emotional...
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