Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status

Waiting times for elective care are a major health policy issue in many developed countries. Recent empirical studies suggest that inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status are present within publicly-funded systems in several countries. In this short commentary I discuss alternative app...

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Autor principal: Siciliani, Luigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25489481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-3-38
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description Waiting times for elective care are a major health policy issue in many developed countries. Recent empirical studies suggest that inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status are present within publicly-funded systems in several countries. In this short commentary I discuss alternative approaches regarding data, methods and interpretation of results. Further work in this research area is needed.
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spelling pubmed-42589562014-12-09 Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status Siciliani, Luigi Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Waiting times for elective care are a major health policy issue in many developed countries. Recent empirical studies suggest that inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status are present within publicly-funded systems in several countries. In this short commentary I discuss alternative approaches regarding data, methods and interpretation of results. Further work in this research area is needed. BioMed Central 2014-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4258956/ /pubmed/25489481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-3-38 Text en © Siciliani; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
title Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
title_full Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
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title_full_unstemmed Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
title_short Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25489481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-3-38
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