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Linking measures of health gain to explicit priority setting by an area health service in Australia.

A demonstration project was undertaken to develop an integer programming model that could help a regional health authority to take into account data on service effectiveness when allocating resources to acute inpatient services. The model was designed to find the mix of services that would maximise...

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Published in:Social Science & Medicine Vol. 47; no. 12; pp. 2067 - 2075
Main Authors: Cromwell, David A., Viney, Rosalie, Halsall, John
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier Science December 1998
Subjects:
Cost effectiveness
Medical care
Health boards
Resource allocation
Decision making
Health policy
Integer programming
Public health
Australia
New South Wales
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