Prioritizing patients on waiting list for cataract surgery: Preference differences among citizens;Priorización de pacientes en lista de espera para cirugía de cataratas: Diferencias en las preferencias entre ciudadanos

Gaceta Sanitaria

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 342-351

  Sampietro Colom, Laura ^a,b,f   Espallargues, Mireia ^a   Comas, Mercè ^c   Rodríguez, Eva ^d   Castells, Xavier ^c   Pinto, José Luis ^e  

^a Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnología e Investigación Médicas   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Vigilancia de la Salud   (Spain)

^c Instituto Municipal de Asistencia Sanitaria   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f Edifici Olimpia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cataract; Conjoint analysis; Elective surgery; Preferences; Priority setting; Social participation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 34547762332     PISSN: 02139111     EISSN: 15781283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13093201     Document Type: Article

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