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Patient Mobility for Elective Secondary Health Care Services in Response to Patient Choice Policies: A Systematic Review.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Quality indicators in surgical oncology: systematic review of measures used to compare quality across hospitals.BJS open · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Patients' choice of healthcare provider for primary hip and knee arthroplasty: a national register-based observational cohort study of 62,676 patients from Norway, 2014-2018.Acta orthopaedica · 2026Observational
- Economic drivers and systemic disparities in invasive coronary angiography: Insights from a national claims database.PloS one · 2026Article
- Study on edge villages based on cross-region healthcare-seeking behavior.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Factors affecting general practitioners' referrals of patients to hip and knee arthroplasty: a focus group study from Northern Norway.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- Challenging selective contracting: reforms for enhancing patient empowerment in healthcare.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- Optimizing patient autonomy: a discrete choice experiment on preferences and disparities in healthcare provider selection.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- Is cooperation better than competition? Evidence from patient mobility before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Tuscany, Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Surgical Preferences and Fears: Misconceptions about Robotic-Assisted Surgery.Urologia internationalis · 2025Article
- Analysing the intra and interregional components of spatial accessibility gravity model to capture the level of equity in the distribution of hospital services in Italy: do they influence patient mobility?BMC health services research · 2024Article
- The hospital emigration to another region in the light of the environmental, social and governance model in Italy during the period 2004-2021.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Driving time drives the hospital choice: choice models for pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Italy.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2023Article
- How to direct patients to high-volume hospitals: exploring the influencing drivers.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Identifying the Drivers of Inter-Regional Patients' Mobility: An Analysis on Hospital Beds Endowment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Managing the cancer backlog: a national population-based study of patient mobility, waiting times and 'spare capacity' for cancer surgery.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Article
- Geographical Disparities and Patients' Mobility: A Plea for Regionalization of Pancreatic Surgery in Italy.Cancers · 2023Article
- How exposure to patient narratives affects stereotyped choices of primary care clinicians.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Our review establishes the empirical evidence for patient mobility for elective secondary care services in countries that allow patients to choose their health care provider. PubMed and Embase were searched for relevant articles between 1990 and 2015. Of 5,994 titles/abstracts reviewed, 26 studies were included. The studies used three main methodological models to establish mobility. Variation in the extent of patient mobility was observed across the studies. Mobility was positively associated with lower waiting times, indicators of better service quality, and access to advanced technology. It was negatively associated with advanced age or lower socioeconomic backgrounds. From a policy perspective we demonstrate that a significant proportion of patients are prepared to travel beyond their nearest provider for elective services. As a consequence, some providers are likely to be "winners" and others "losers," which could result in overall decreased provider capacity or inefficient utilization of existing services. Equity also remains a key concern.
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