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The next HERU external seminar will be delivered by Dr Yuanyuan Gu. Yuanyuan is currently undertaking a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship on health econometrics with Professor Andrew Jones at the University of York. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE). Yuanyuan completed his bachelor degree in statistics at Fudan University, and his Mcom (Hons) and PhD in economics at the University of New South Wales.
Title: Patient choice, hospital quality and surgical urgency: A discrete choice experiment
Abstract: Improving hospital quality by introducing greater patient choice relies on the hypothesis that patients respond to quality signals. Our study examines this hypothesis by designing a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in the context of hospital choice for hip replacement surgery in Australia. A number of subjective and objective quality attributes are considered, including GP’s opinion, other patients’ overall rating, average health gain (reported by other patients), rate of adverse events and readmission rate. A thousand Australians undertook the DCE with 500 each randomised into semi-urgent and non-urgent surgical categories. Our results reveal that respondents on average respond to both subjective and objective quality signals but most strongly to the average health gain, regardless of the surgical urgency. The latent class analysis suggests, however, the relative importance of these quality measures differ between subgroups, in relation to respondents’ characteristics. Our findings add to the hospital choice literature with new evidence from a unique healthcare system and provide useful inputs to the current healthcare reform in Australia and around the world.
- Speaker
- Dr Yuanyuan Gu
- Hosted by
- Dr Verity Watson
- Venue
- Rm1:029, Polwarth Building