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Addressing private practice in public hospitals

Guo, Xidong; Parlane, Sarah - 2020

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of the private provision of care within public hospitals and assesses its impact on the quality and cost of healthcare. We also capture this policy's impact on the number of outpatients that are seen and the number that are cured. We show that the...

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Hospital efficiency and consultants' private practices : analysing the impact of a voluntary reform

Guo, Xidong - 2023

This paper explores the effectiveness of the voluntary reform. It studies a voluntary healthcare reform that was implemented in Ireland in 2008. The analysis is conducted using a theoretical model and empirical evidence. In 2008, in the hope to reduce waiting lists, new contracts were issued...

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An analysis of a rural hospital’s investment decision under different payment systems

Guo, Xidong - 2023

on a hospital in a rural community where the frequency of utilisation of expensive equipment is possible low, and where … patients may incur transfer costs. Considering both, a rural and an urban hospital, I identify the first-best investment level … of a rural hospital and compare it with the investment levels arising from two payment systems: The Fee-for-service (FFS …

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Distributional characteristics for Ireland : a note

Madden, David - 2009

The distributional characteristic is a measure which can be used in many applications in social cost-benefit analysis. In the application here, the distributional characteristics of a number of broad aggregates of goods are calculated for Ireland. These calculations can aid in assessing the...

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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality : an empirical comparison

Madden, David - 2008

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of...

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