Karen Gerard

Is fast access to general practice all that should matter? a discrete choice experiment of patients’ preferences (2008)

Gerard, Karen, Salisbury, Chris, Street, Deborah, Pope, Catherine, Baxter, Helen

Objectives: To determine the relative importance of factors that influence patient choice in the booking of general practice appointments for two health problems. Methods: Two discrete choice...

An evaluation of advanced access in general practice (2007)

Salisbury, Chris, Banks, Jon, Goodall, Stephen, Baxter, Helen, Montgomery, Alan, Pope, Catherine, ...

Aims: To evaluate ‘Advanced Access’ in general practice, and assess its impact on patients, practice organisation, activity, and staff. Objectives: To describe the range of strategies that...

Preferences of patients for emergency services available during usual GP surgery hours: a discrete choice experiment (2005)

Gerard, Karen, Lattimer, Val

Objective. A study was undertaken to investigate patients' strength of preferences for attributes or characteristics associated with delivery of emergency primary care services available during usual...

Preferences of patients for emergency services available during usual GP surgery hours: a discrete choice experiment (2004)

Gerard, Karen, Lattimer, Val

Objective. A study was undertaken to investigate patients' strength of preferences for attributes or characteristics associated with delivery of emergency primary care services available during usual...

Econometric analysis of health care expenditures: can positive analysis help answer normative questions? (1993)

McGuire, Alistair, Parkin, David, Hughes, David, Gerard, Karen

The size of national health care expenditure is an important research and policy issue. This paper reviews theoretical and empirical analyses of an implied optimal size for a health sector. Various...

AN APPRAISAL OF THE COSTEFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATIVE DAY CARE SETTINGS FOR FRAIL ELDERLY PEOPLE (1988)

GERARD, KAREN

Three alternative day care settings for a defined subgroup of frail elderly people are evaluated using cost-effectiveness analysis. This subgroup of frail elderly people is a significant minority of...

Exploring the social value of health-care interventions: a stated preference discrete choice experiment

Colin Green, Karen Gerard

Much of the literature on distributive preferences covers specific considerations in isolation, and recent reviews have suggested that research is required to inform on the relative importance of...