Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "General practitioners"

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    • Doctors? fees in Ireland following the change in reimbursement: did they jump? 

      Madden, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      This paper analyses the pure time-series properties of doctors? fees in Ireland to assess whether a structural change in the series is observed at the time of the change in reimbursement in 1989. Such a break would be ...

    • GP utilisation in Northern Ireland: exploiting the gatekeeper function 

      McGregor, Pat; McKee, Pat; O'Neill, Ciaran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      Using data from the Northern Ireland Household Panel survey we demonstrate that attendance at outpatients is determined solely by respondent health. This is consistent with the GP acting as a gatekeeper to other services. ...