Choice of dialysis treatment and type of medical unit (private vs public): application of a recursive bivariate probit
✍ Scribed by Lara Gitto; Domenico Santoro; Giuseppe Sobbrio
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
- DOI
- 10.1002/hec.1139
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✦ Synopsis
ESRD patients have to deal with two choices: the first is related to the dialysis modality; the second concerns the type of dialysis unit (public vs private) where to undertake the treatment. Such a choice is related to unobservable factors, among which there might be patients' clinical factors as well as factors related to the characteristics of each unit. We employ a recursive bivariate probit estimation on a sample of ESRD Sicilian patients in order to evaluate the impact of these factors. Results can have important implications for Sicily in order to organize dialysis services: here, in fact, the number of private centres is higher than in other Italian Regions.