Waiting times and waiting lists

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 259-268

  Siciliani, Luigi ^a   Iversen, Tor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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