General practitioners' choice of referral destination: a probit analysis

Article Abstract:

A study is conducted that examines the decision making process used by British primary care physicians to select the hospitals they would purchase specialist care from. A model of the criteria used by general practitioner 'fundholders' (GPFH) for choosing a referral destination is developed and tested using data on GPFHs in the Trent Regional Health Authority. Results suggest that the choice of a referral destination is influenced more by locality and clinical factors than price.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Research, Services, Health care industry, Physicians, Medical professions, Medical referral

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Predicting the geo-temporal variations of crime and disorder

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The methods for crime incident forecasting are described by focusing upon geographical areas of concern that transcend traditional policing boundaries. A geographical crime incidence-scanning algorithm is used by computerized procedure utilities to identify clusters with relatively high levels of crime.

Prepackaged software, Models, Usage, Criminal behavior, Prediction of, Prediction of criminal behavior, Geographic information systems, Geographic information system, Prediction of criminal behaviour

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The non-normality of some macroeconomic forecast errors

Article Abstract:

The distributional properties of individual and consensus time series macroeconomic forecast errors are investigated, using data from the survey of Professional Forecasters. The results showed that many of the forecast error series are found to have non-zero mean.

Evaluation, Time-series analysis, Time series analysis

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