Experience of adults with low back pain awaiting consultation with a spinal surgeon (Concurrent)

Eastwood, Donna M.

doi:10.1016/j.joon.2009.02.035

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“…Individuals may also be poorly equipped to understand a system that sorts patients by waiting time. Eastwood (2011) found that, in New Brunswick, back-pain patients waiting for a consultative appointment on potential surgery feared that calling the office to inquire about their place in the queue would place them lower on the waiting list. Desperate to receive care, these same patients upgraded their telephone services to ensure they would not miss calls from the consultative staff.…”

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Strategic sorting: the role of ordeals in health care

Zeckhauser

2020

Economics and Philosophy

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Ordeals are burdens placed on individuals that yield no benefits to others; hence they represent a dead-weight loss. Ordeals – the most common is waiting time – play a prominent role in rationing health care. The recipients most willing to bear them are those receiving the greatest benefit from scarce health-care resources. Health care is heavily subsidized; hence, moral hazard leads to excess use. Ordeals are intended to discourage expenditures yielding little benefit while simultaneously avoiding the undesired consequences of rationing methods such as quotas or pricing. This analysis diagnoses the economic underpinnings of ordeals. Subsidies for nursing-home care versus home care illustrate.

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Section: Ordeals and Target Efficiencymentioning

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Strategic sorting: the role of ordeals in health care

Zeckhauser

2020

Economics and Philosophy

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“…Individuals may also be poorly equipped to understand a system that sorts patients by waiting time. Eastwood (2008) found that, in New Brunswick, back-pain patients waiting for a consultative appointment on potential surgery feared that calling the office to inquire about their place in the queue would place them lower on the waiting list. Desperate to receive care, these same patients upgraded their telephone services to ensure they would not miss calls from the consultative staff.…”

Section: Deficiencies In the Waiting Line As A Sorting Ordealmentioning

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Strategic Sorting: The Role of Ordeals in Health Care

Zeckhauser

2019

SSRN Journal

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Ordeals are burdens placed on individuals that yield no direct benefits to others. They represent a dead-weight loss. Ordeals-the most common being waiting time-play a prominent role in health care. Their goal is to direct scarce resources to recipients receiving greater value from them, hence presumed to be more willing to bear an ordeal's burden. Ordeals are intended to prevent wasteful expenditures given that health care is heavily subsidized, yet avoid other forms of rationing, such as quotas or pricing. This analysis diagnoses the economic underpinnings of ordeals. Subsidies to nursing home versus home care illustrate.

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Experience of adults with low back pain awaiting consultation with a spinal surgeon (Concurrent)

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Strategic sorting: the role of ordeals in health care

Strategic sorting: the role of ordeals in health care

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