Naylor, C. David; Levinton, Carey M.; Wheeler, Susan; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 37 (1993) 1, pp. 61-67
Queues for in-patient surgery are commonplace in universal health care systems. Clinicians and hospitals usually manage these waiting lists with informal criteria for determining patient priority--a form of implicit rationing. To understand the workings of implicit rationing by queue, we took...