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50
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9587
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2780
National Ranking
204

Overview

Anthony Scott is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in health professions and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans several interrelated subfields, including general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, emergency medical services, and gender studies.

The primary topics of their research cover areas such as healthcare policy and management, primary care and health outcomes, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, global health care issues, global health workforce issues, diversity and career in medicine, and patient satisfaction in healthcare.

Some of the recent papers by Anthony Scott include:

  • Association between telehealth use and general practitioner characteristics during COVID-19: findings from a nationally representative survey of Australian doctors (2021, BMJ Open)
  • The impact of price transparency on consumers and providers: A scoping review (2020, Health Policy)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Anthony Scott include:

  • Jongsay Yong
  • Susan J. Méndez
  • Ou Yang
  • Yuting Zhang
  • Dajung Jun

Anthony Scott's research has been published in multiple venues, with recurrent publications in:

  • BMJ Open
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Health Policy
  • The Medical Journal of Australia

Their work often investigates healthcare delivery and policy issues, including studies on telehealth adoption by general practitioners, the effects of price transparency in healthcare, and the evaluation of payment methods for outpatient healthcare providers.

Through their interdisciplinary research approach, Anthony Scott focuses on analyzing healthcare systems from both a practical and economic perspective, addressing workforce distribution, healthcare quality, and management efficiency.

Best Publications

  • The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians

    Anthony Scott;Peter Sivey;Driss Ait Ouakrim;Lisa Willenberg

  • An overview of reviews evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives in changing healthcare professional behaviours and patient outcomes

    Gerd Flodgren;Martin P Eccles;Sasha Shepperd;Anthony Scott

  • Agency in health care. Examining patients' preferences for attributes of the doctor-patient relationship.

    Sandra Vick;Anthony Scott

  • A randomised trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors

    Anthony Scott;Sung-Hee Jeon;Catherine Marie Joyce;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Identifying and analysing dominant preferences in discrete choice experiments: An application in health care

    Anthony Scott

  • Has payment by results affected the way that English hospitals provide care? Difference-in-differences analysis

    Shelley Farrar;Deok Hee Yi;Matt Sutton;Martin Chalkley

  • Eliciting GPs' preferences for pecuniary and non-pecuniary job characteristics.

    Anthony Scott

  • The labour market for nursing: a review of the labour supply literature

    Emanuela Antonazzo;Anthony Scott;Diane Skatun;Robert. F. Elliott

  • The "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey - Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors' workforce participation

    Catherine Marie Joyce;Anthony Scott;Sung-Hee Jeon;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Patients, Doctors and Contracts: An Application of Principal-Agent Theory to the Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Anthony Scott;Sandra Vick

  • Economics of general practice

    Anthony Scott

  • Job Satisfaction and Quitting Intentions: A Structural Model of British General Practitioners

    Anthony Scott;Hugh Gravelle;Steven Simoens;Chris Bojke

  • Determinants of bed net use in the Gambia: implications for malaria control.

    Virginia Wiseman;Anthony Scott;Brendan Mcelroy;Lesong Conteh

  • The MEDMAN study: a randomized controlled trial of community pharmacy-led medicines management for patients with coronary heart disease

    Mariesha Jaffray;Christine M. Bond;M. C. Watson;Philip Hannaford

  • Getting doctors into the bush: general practitioners' preferences for rural location

    Anthony Scott;Julia Witt;John Stirling Humphreys;Catherine Marie Joyce

  • Is general practitioner decision making associated with patient socio-economic status ?

    Anthony Scott;I Alan Shiell;Madeleine King

  • What do hospital consultants value about their jobs? A discrete choice experiment

    Cristina Ubach;Anthony Scott;Fiona French;Morag Awramenko

  • Eliciting preferences of the community for out of hours care provided by general practitioners: a stated preference discrete choice experiment.

    Anthony Scott;M.Stuart Watson;Sue Ross

  • Job Satisfaction, Work-Related Stress and Intentions to Quit of Scottish GPS

    S. Simoens;Anthony Scott;B. Sibbald

  • Keeping the customer satisfied: issues in the interpretation and use of patient satisfaction surveys.

    Anthony Scott;Richard D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

John Stirling Humphreys
John Stirling Humphreys Monash University
Andrew Hurst
Andrew Hurst University of Aberdeen
Alan Shiell
Alan Shiell La Trobe University
Barbara McPake
Barbara McPake University of Melbourne
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
Qingyue Meng
Qingyue Meng Peking University
Matt Sutton
Matt Sutton University of Manchester
Anthony J. Jakeman
Anthony J. Jakeman Australian National University

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