A contingent valuation study of the appropriate user price for ambulance service

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 932-940

  Ohshige, Kenji ^a   Kawakami, Chihiro ^a   Kubota, Katsuaki ^b   Tochikubo, Osamu ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FIRE AND DISASTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Charges; Contingent valuation; Out of hospital emergency medicine; User price; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT VALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AMBULANCES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 25144479279     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.05.033     Document Type: Article

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