Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Published By: LICOS on eSS | Published Date: May, 13 , 2004To empirically test whether, as surveys and
anedoctal reports suggest, patients are paying to stay longer in hospital, perceived as resulting in
better care (e.g. more professional attention), a unique dataset is constructed on hospital length of
stay, severity, unofficial payments and socio-economic characteristics (age, gender, occupation and
income) from a survey on 1508 trauma and surgical patients discharged from Almaty City (the
former capital of Kazakhstan) three main hospitals between 1999 and 2000.
Author(s): Robin Thompson, Ana Xavier | Posted on: May 13, 2010 | Views(1086) | Download (555)