The market for elective surgery: Joint estimation of supply and demand

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-285

  Martin, Stephen ^a   Rice, Nigel ^a   Jacobs, Rowena ^a   Smith, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elective surgery; Quality of care; Seemingly unrelated regression; Supply and demand; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MARKET; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL;

ENGLAND; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATE MEDICINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; WAITING LISTS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847140626     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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