Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper Series

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1991: Charging for Health Care: Evidence on the Utilization of NHS Prescribed Drugs

M Ryan and S Birch

1991: Health-care Technology Assessment: Ontario and Beyond

David Feeny and R Wall

1991: Incentives to Be Healthy: An Economic Model of Health-related Behaviour

S Birch and G Stoddart

1991: Healthy Years Equivalent: How to Measure Them Using the Standard Gamble Approach

A Mehrez and A Gafni

1991: Do Health Service Organizations and Community Health Centres Have Higher Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Activity Levels Than Fee-for-service Practices?

J Abelson and J Lomas

1991: Hospitals' Patient Volume as a Marker of Quality of Cancer Care. A Study on the Appropriateness of Use of Halsted Radical Mastectomy in Italy

R Grilli, V Torri, F Mainini and A Liberati

1991: Making Clinical Policy Explicit: Legislative Policy-making and Lessons for Developing Practice Guidelines

J Lomas

1991: Cost Effectiveness of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: A Preliminary Analysis

B O'Brien and M Buxton

1991: Alberta's Resident Classification System for Long Term Care Facilities. Part II: First Year Results and Policy Implications

C Charles and C Schalm

1991: Alberta's Resident Classification System for Long Term Care Facilities. Part I: Conceptual and Methodological Development

C Charles and C Schalm

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada: Appendices

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 12. Looking Back, Looking Forward

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 11. Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 10. Information Creation and Dissemination

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 9. Postgraduate Training and Specialty Certification

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 8. Geographic Distribution of Physicians

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 7. Undergraduate Medical Training

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 6. Physician Reimbursement and Global Expenditure Policy

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 5. The Roles and Funding of Academic Medical Centres

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 4. Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 3. Analytic Framework for Policy Development

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 2. Promoting Change - General Themes

G Stoddart and M Barer

1991: Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada. 1. Background, Process and Perceived Problems

M Barer and G Stoddart

1991: Cost Effectiveness/Utility Analyses: Do Current Decision Rules Lead us to Where We Want to Be?

S Birch and A Gafni

1991: Equity and efficiency in health-care delivery: The distribution of health-care resources in Canada and its relationship to needs for care

S Birch and J Eyles

1991: The Standard Gamble Method: What is Being Measured and How it is Interpreted

A Gafni

1991: Implications of Basing Health Care Resource Allocations on Cost-utility Analysis in the Presence of Externalities

R Labelle and Jeremiah Hurley

1991: The Search for Information - A Patient Perspective on Second Opinion

A Mehrez, Yun Yuan and A Gafni

1991: The Effects of Co-payments in the Prescription Drug Market

Jeremiah Hurley and N Arbuthnot-Johnson

1991: Physicians' Choices of Specialty, Location and Mode: A Re-examination Within an Interdependent Decision Framework

Jeremiah Hurley

1990: Promoting Clinical Policy Change: Using the Art to Promote the Science in Medicine

J Lomas

1990: Elderly Patients' Use of Hospital-based Emergency Services

F Beland, A Lemay, L Philibert, B Maheux and G Gravel

1990: Universal Precautions and the Prevention of AIDS in Health-care Workers - An Economic Analysis

S Stock, A Gafni and R Bloch

1990: Opinion Leaders vs. Audit and Feedback to Implement Practice Guidelines - Delivery After Previous Cesarean Section

J Lomas, M Enkin, G Anderson, W Hannah, E Vayda and J Singer

1990: Using Willingness-to-pay as a Measure of Benefits: What is the Relevant Question to Ask in the Context of Public Decision Making About Health Care Programs?

A Gafni

1990: Episodes of Care and Long Term Trends in Individuals' Patterns of Utilization of Medical Care

F Beland and G Stoddart

1990: Development and Application of a Needs-based Methodology for Calculating a Capitation Rate for a Comprehensive Health Organization

S Birch, S Chambers, J Eyles, Jeremiah Hurley and B Hutchison

1990: Words Without Action? The Production, Dissemination and Impact of Consensus Recommendations

J Lomas

1990: Equity Considerations in Utility-based Measures of Health Outcomes in Economic Appraisals: An Adjustment Algorithm

A Gafni and S Birch

1990: Finding Audiences, Changing Beliefs: The Structure of Research Use in Canadian Health Policy

J Lomas

1990: Ionic vs Non-ionic Contrast Media: A Burden or a Bargain

A Gafni and C Zylak

1990: Assessing Concepts of Quality Care: Results of a National Survey of Five Self-regulating Health Professions in Canada

C Fooks, M Rachlis and C Kushner

1990: Producing Health, Consuming Health Care

R Evans and G Stoddart

1990: Use of Help by the Elderly: A Gender Issue?

Francois Beland

1990: The Relationship Between Physician Fees and the Utilization of Medical Services in Ontario

Jeremiah Hurley, R Labelle and T Rice

1990: Quality Assurance and Effectiveness in Health Care: An Overview

J Lomas

1990: Economic Evaluation of Alternative Programmes of Reduced-stay Senile Cataract Surgery

R Wall, S Birch and M McQuillin

1990: HSO Performance: A Critical Appraisal of Current Research

Stephen Birch, Jonathan Lomas, Michael Rachlis and Julia Abelson

1990: Is the Canadian Health Care System Suffering from Abuse?

C Woodward and G Stoddart

1990: Managerial Approach to Allocating Indirect Fixed Costs in Health Care Organization

Y Goldschmidt and A Gafni

1990: The Relative Cost-effectiveness of Water Fluoridation Across Communities: Analysis of Variations According to Underlying Caries Levels

S Birch

1990: Evaluating Health Related Quality-of-life: An Indifference Curve Interpretation for the Time Trade-off Technique

A Mehrez and A Gafni

1990: Simulated Effects of Incomes-based Policies on the Distribution of Physicians

Jeremiah Hurley

1990: Minding Our Ps and Qs: Simultaneous Control of the Price and Quantity of Physician Services in Canada

J Lomas, C Fooks, T Rice and R Labelle

1989: The Compensating Variation Approach: The Case of Lives Saved vs Lives Taken

Amiram Gafni and Abraham Ravid

1989: Accommodating Rapid Growth in Physician Supply: Lessons from Israel, Warning for Canada

M Barer, A Gafni and J Lomas

1989: Do Physicians Induce Demand for Medical Service?

T Rice and R Labelle

1989: Students' Performance vs Hospital Performance in the Labour Market for Medical Interns and Residents: Do Hospitals Perform Better Due to Asymmetry in Information Available to Them Relative to Students?

A Gafni and Yun Yuan

1989: Publicly Financed Competition in Health Care Delivery: A Canadian Simulation Model

J Muldoon and G Stoddart

1989: Incorporating Utility-based Quality-of-life Assessment Measures in Clinical Trials: Two Examples

David Feeny and G Torrance

1988: The Effect of Malpractice Claims on Physicians' Behaviour: A Theoretical Approach

Amiram Gafni and Giora Moore

1988: Health Technology in Ontario: Report to the Ontario Health Review Panel

David Feeny

1988: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Risk Management Programs

G Torrance and A Oxman

1988: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Primary Tetanus Immunization Among Elderly Canadians

B Hutchison and G Stoddart

1988: Toward Improved Health Technology Policy in Canada: A Proposal for the National Health Technology Assessment Council

David Feeny and G Stoddart

1988: The Role of Evidence in the Consensus Process: Results from a Canadian Consensus Exercise

J Lomas, G Anderson and M Enkin