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Full Bibliography for Dr Stephen Duckett PhD, DSc, FCHSE, FASSA

1. Duckett, S. J., & Kristofferson, S. M. (1978). An index of hospital performance. Medical Care, 16(5), 400-407.

2. Duckett, S. J. (1979). Chopping and changing Medibank part 1: Implementation of a new policy. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 14, 230-43.

3. Duckett, S. J. (1979). Supplementing theory with practice.  A review of methods relevant to the training of health administrators. Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, 1-55.

4. Duckett, S. J., & Ellen, J.  M. (1979). The Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney. Australian Studies in Health Service Administration No. 36. Sydney, University of New South Wales.

5. Scarfe, C. G., Weaver, C. J., Duckett, S. J., & Schmiede, A. M. (1979). Quality assurance in Australian hospitals. Medical Journal of Australia, 1, 328-331.

6. Duckett, S. J. (1980). Chopping and changing Medibank part 2: an interpretation of the policy making process. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 15, 79-91.

7. Duckett, S. J., & Ellen, J. M. (1980). Community health services in Inner Sydney: an analysis of clients, services and costs. Community Health Studies, IV(3), 201-206.

8. Bennett, T. R., & Duckett, S. J. (1981). Operations research and nurse staffing. International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, 12, 433-438.

9. Duckett, S. J., Scarf, C. G., Schmiede, A. M., & Weaver, C. J. (1981). The organisation of medical staff in Australian hospitals. Melbourne, Longman Cheshire.

10. Duckett, S. J., & Coombs, E. M. (1982). The impact of an evaluation of accreditation. Health Policy Quarterly, 2(3/4), 199-208.

11. Duckett, S. J. (1983). Assuring hospital standards: the introduction of hospital accreditation in Australia. Australian Journal of Public Administration, XLII(3), 385-402.

12. Duckett, S. J. (1983). Changing hospitals: the role of hospital accreditation. Social Science and Medicine, 17(20), 1573-1579.

13. Duckett, S. J. (1984). Structural interests and Australian health policy. Social Science & Medicine, 18(11), 959-66.

14. Duckett, S. J. (1986). Diagnosis Related Groups: towards a constructive application for Victoria. Australian Health Review, 9(2), 107-115.

15. Duckett, S. J. (1988). Hospital financing reform: the first steps. The Australian Quarterly, 60(4), 435-447.

16. Broadhead, P., Duckett, S. J., & Lavender, G. (1989). Developing a mandate for change: planning as a political process. Community Health Studies, XIII(3), 243-257.

17. Duckett, S. J. (1989). Is federalism dead? The case of Commonwealth-State financial relations in the hospital field. Economics and Health: 1989: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australian Conference of Health Economists. Melbourne, Vic.: Faculty of Economics and Politics, Monash University.

18. Duckett, S. J. (1989). Regulating the construction of hospitals or vice versa: the courts and private hospital planning in Victoria. Community Health Studies, 13(4), 431-440.

19. Duckett, S. J. (1991). Hospital role delineation: the technology and the politics. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 6, 133-142.

20. Duckett, S. J. (1992). Financing of health care. In  H. Gardner (Ed.), Health policy: development, implementation and evaluation in Australia (pp. 137-161). Melbourne, Churchill Livingstone.

21. Duckett, S. J., & Jackson, T. (1993). Casemix classification for outpatient services based on episodes of care. Medical Journal of Australia, 158, 489-492.

22. Duckett, S. J. (1993). Diagnosis Related Groups. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 29, 263.

23. Duckett, S. J. (1994). Casemix in Victoria: the first six months, healthcover, 4(2), 29-33.

24. Duckett, S. J. (1994). Casemix in Victoria: issues in implementation. Economics and Health:1994. Canberra: School of Health Services Management, University of NSW.

25. Duckett, S. J. (1994). Hospital and departmental management in the era of accountability: addressing the new management challenges. Australian Health Review, 17(3), 116-131.

26. Duckett, S. J. (1994). Reform of public hospital funding in Victoria. Australian studies in health service administration, no. 77. Sydney: School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales.

27. Duckett, S. J. (1995). The Australian health care system: an overview. In G. Lupton & J.M. Najman (Eds.), Sociology of health and illness: Australian readings (pp. 29-56). Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan Education Australia.

28. Duckett, S. J. (1995). Casemix funding in Victoria: the first year: what worked, what didn't. Medical Journal of Australia, 162, 650-654.

29. Duckett, S. J. (1995). Hospital payment arrangements to encourage efficiency: the case of Victoria, Australia. Health Policy, 34, 113-134.

30. Duckett, S. J. (1995). Medicare - where to now? Australian Health Review, 18(1), 117-124.

31. Duckett, S. J., Gray, L., & Howe, A. (1995). Designing a funding system for rehabilitation services: Part 1: rationale and recent developments. Australian Health Review, 18(3), 30-44.

32. Duckett, S. J., Gray, L., & Howe, A. (1995). Designing a funding system for rehabilitation services: Part 2: policy objectives and options for achieving efficiency and quality of care. Australian Health Review, 18(4), 62-77.

33. Duckett, S. J., Hogan, T., & Southgate, J. (1995). The COAG Reforms and community health services. Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange, 1(1), 3-10.

34. Duckett, S. J. (1996). After casemix, after purchaser-provider: where next on health care reform? In A.H. Harris (Ed.), Economics and Health 1995: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australian Conference of Health Economists (pp. 79-86). Sydney: School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales.

35. Duckett, S. J. (1996). The new market in health care: prospects for managed care in Australia. Australian Health Review, 19(2), 7-21.

36. Duckett, S. J., & Jackson, T. (1996). Rationing health care resources using outcomes-based approaches. In N. Ford (Ed.), Ethics and resource allocation in health care: Conference Proceedings. Melbourne: Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics.

37. Duckett, S. J., & Swerissen, H. (1996). Specific purpose programs in Human Services and Health: moving from an input to an output and outcome focus. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 55(3), 7-17.

38. Street, A., & Duckett, S. (1996). Are waiting lists inevitable? Health Policy, 36, 1-15.

39. Duckett, S. J. (1997). Doctors and healthcare reform. Medical Journal of Australia, 167(4), 184-185.

40. Duckett, S. J. (1997). Health care in the US: What lessons for Australia? Sydney: The Australian Centre for American Studies, University of Sydney.

41. Duckett, S. J. (1997). Health in 2000: Commonwealth/State Relations in Human Services. Melbourne: ALP Taskforce 2000.

42. Duckett, S. J. (1997). Internal and external challenges for hospitals in the future Medical Journal of Australia, 166(1), 20-22.

43. Lin, V., & Duckett, S. J. (1997). Structural interests and organisational dimensions of health system reform. In H. Gardner (Ed.), Health Policy in Australia (pp. 64-80), Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

44. Swerissen, H., & Duckett, S. (1997). Health policy and financing. In H. Gardner (Ed.), Health Policy in Australia (pp. 13-45). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

45. Duckett, S. J. (1998). Casemix funding for acute hospital inpatient services in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 169(Supplement, 19 October), S17-S21.

46. Duckett, S. J. (1998). Economics of hospital care. In G. Mooney & R. Scotton (Eds.), Economics and Australian health policy (pp. 93-114). Melbourne: Allen & Unwin.

47. Duckett, S. J. (1998). Making a move on Medicare. Australian Health Review, 21(2), 22-27.

48. Duckett, S. J. (1998). Responding to health inequalities in Australia: a proposed strategy. Australian Journal of Primary Health – Interchange, 4(2), 9-19.

49. Stamp, K. M., Duckett, S. J., & Fisher, D. A. (1998). Hospital use for potentially preventable conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other Australian populations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 22(6), 673-684.

50. Duckett, S. J. (1999). Commonwealth/State relations in health. In L. Hancock (Ed.), Health policy in the market state (pp. 71-86). Melbourne: Allen & Unwin.

51. Duckett, S. J. (1999). Is there a Y2K problem for casemix? Casemix Quarterly, 1(3), 3-8.

52. Duckett, S. J. (1999). Policy challenges for the Australian health care system. Australian Health Review, 22(2), 130-147.

53. Duckett, S. J., & Hunter, L. (1999). Health Services Policy Review Final Report. Melbourne: Department of Human Services.

54. Duckett, S. J., & Jackson, T. (1999). Do the elderly cost more? Casemix funding in acute settings. In R. Nay & S. Garratt (Ed.), Nursing older people: issues and innovations (pp. 3-17). Sydney: MacLennan & Petty.

55. Graetz, B., Byrne, M., Duckett, S., Agius, P., & Milligan, F. (1999). Managing quantitative data requirements for the national evaluation of coordinated care trials. In Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care (Ed.), The Australian Coordinated Care Trials: methodological issues in trial design and evaluation (pp. 209-221). Canberra: Ausinfo.

56. Burley, H. T., & Duckett, S. J. (2000). Relative technical efficiency of New South Wales public hospital peer groups. Journal of Cost Analysis & Management, (December), 17-30.

57. Crisp, B., Swerissen, H., & Duckett, S. J. (2000). Four approaches to capacity building in health: consequences for measurement and accountability. Health Promotion International, 15(2), 99-107.

58. Duckett, S. J. (2000). The Australian Health Care System. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

59. Duckett, S. J. (2000). The Australian health workforce: facts and futures. Australian Health Review, 23(4): 60-77.

60. Duckett, S. J. (2000). Das australische AR-DRG-Klassifikationssystem fur den Krankenhausbereich. In M. Arnold, M. Litsch & H. Schellschmidt (Ed.), Krankenhaus-Report 2000: Schwerpunkt: Vergutungsreform mit DRGs (pp. 67-74). Stuttgart, Schattauer.

61. Duckett, S. J. (2000). The development of Australian refined Diagnosis Related Groups: the Australian inpatient casemix classification. Casemix Quarterly, 2(4), 115-120.

62. Duckett, S. J. (2000). Does Wimpole Street stretch to Australia? International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 12(4), 275-276.

63. Duckett, S. J. (2000). The evolution of the purchaser role for acute inpatient services in Australia. In A.L. Bloom (Ed.), Health reform in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 147-160). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

64. Duckett, S. J. & Jackson, T. (2000). The new health insurance rebate: an inefficient way of assisting public hospitals. Medical Journal of Australia, 172(9), 439-444.

65. Duckett, S. J. & Kenny, A. (2000). Hospital outpatient and emergency services in rural Victoria. Australian Health Review, 23(4), 115-125.

66. Dyson, M., Allen, F. C. L., & Duckett, S. J. (2000). Profiling childhood disability: the reliability of the educational needs questionnaire. Evaluation and Program Planning, 23(2), 177-185.

67. Dyson, M., Duckett, S. J., & Allen, F. C. L. (2000). A therapy-relevant casemix classification system for school age children with disabilities. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 81(May), 634-643.

68. Swerissen, H., Duckett, S. J., Daly, J., Bergen, K., Marshall, S., Borthwick, C., Crisp, B. R. (2001). Health promotion and evaluation: a programmatic approach. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 11(1 Suppl), 1-28.

69. Duckett, S. J. (2001). Does it matter who owns health facilities? Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 6(1), 59-62.

70. Duckett, S. J. (2001). Equity in access to health care. In R. Eckersley, J. Dixon, & R. Douglas (Eds.), The social origins of health and well-being (pp. 149-156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

71. Duckett, S. J. (2001). Rationalising roles in public hospital funding. In  G. Mooney, & A. Plant (Eds.), Daring to dream: the future of Australian health care (pp. 69-78). Bentley, W.A.: Black Swan Press.

72. Duckett, S. J. (2001). Taking Medicare forward. Blue Book Series No. 2. Melbourne: The Australian Fabian Society and Arena Publications.

73. Duckett, S. J., & Jackson, T. (2001). Paying for hospital emergency care under a single-payer system. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 37(3), 309-317.

74. Duckett, S. J., & Stow, S. (2001). Payment policy for chemotherapy in public hospitals: A case for splitting DRG 780/R63Z. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(6), 552-555.

75. Kendig, H., & Duckett, S. J. (2001). Australian directions in aged care: the generation of policies for generations of older people. Commissioned Paper Series 2001/05. Sydney: Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney.

76. Duckett, S. J., & Wright, G. W. (2001/2002). A duel with statistics that looked more like apples and oranges: debate, ‘That the government private health insurance strategy is an inefficient way of helping public hospitals’. healthcover, 11(6), 53-59.

77. Kendig, H. L., & Duckett, S. J. (2002). Aged care: plan now for the 2020s – and be helped by applied research: debate. healthcover, 12(1), 40-44.

78. Duckett, S. J. (2002). Australian hospital services: an overview. Australian Health Review, 25(1), 2-18.

79. McNair, P., & Duckett, S. J. (2002). Funding Victoria's public hospitals: the casemix policy of 2000-2001. Australian Health Review, 25(1), 72-98.

80. Duckett, S. J., Geeves, P., Kinne, L., & Ratcliffe, K. (2002). Hospital services in Tasmania. Australian Health Review, 25(1), 141-155.

81. Swerissen, H., & Duckett, S. J. (2002). Health policy and financing. In H. Gardner & S. Barraclough (Eds.), Health policy in Australia (2nd ed.) (pp. 13-48). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

82. Duckett, S. J., & Agius, P. (2002). Performance of diagnosis-based risk adjustment measures in a population of sick Australians. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 26, 500-507.

83. Duckett, S. J. (2002). Rational care before rationed care. Internal Medicine Journal 32, 533-534.

84. Duckett, S. (2002). PBS co-payment measures would shift costs to wrong end of ‘food chain’. healthcover, 12(4), 11, 13-18.

85. Duckett, S. J. (2002). The 2003-2008 Australian Health Care Agreement: an opportunity for reform. Australian Health Review, 25(6), 10-12.

86. Kenny, A., & Duckett, S. J. (2003) A question of place: medical power in rural Australia, Social Science & Medicine, 58, 1059-1073.

87. Duckett, S. J. (2003). Making a difference in health care. In Ryan, S. & Bramston, T. (Eds.), The Hawke government: a critical perspective (pp. 215-224). North Melbourne: Pluto Press.

88. Duckett, S. J. (2004). Turning right at the crossroads: The Nelson Report's proposals to transform Australia's universities. Higher Education, 47, 211-240.

89. Kenny, A., & Duckett, S. J. (2003). Educating for rural nursing practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 44, 613-622.

90. Duckett, S. J. (2004). The Australian Health Care System (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

91. Duckett, S. J. (2004).  Drug Policy Down Under: Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Health Care Financing Review, 25(3), 55-67.\

92. Perry, A., Morris, M., Unsworth, C., Duckett, S., Skeat, J., Dodd, K., et al. (2004). Therapy outcome measures for allied health practitioners in Australia: the AusTOMs. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 16(4), 285-291.

93. Duckett, S. J. (2004). The case to invest in health care. Brotherhood Comment, (April), 5.

94. Duckett, S., & Jackson, T. (2004). Do the elderly cost more? Casemix funding in acute settings. In Nay, R. & Garratt, S. (Eds.), Nursing older people: issues and innovations (pp. 31-40). Sydney: Churchill Livingstone.

95. Gong, Z., Duckett, S. J., Legge, D.G., & Pei, L. (2004). Describing Chinese hospital activity with diagnosis related groups (DRGs): a case study in Chengdu. Health Policy, 69, 93-100.

96. Gray, L. C., Yeo, M. A., & Duckett, S. J. (2004). Trends in the use of hospital beds by older people in Australia: 1993-2002. Medical Journal of Australia, 181, 478-481.

97. Unsworth, C. A., Duckett, S. J., Duncombe, D., Perry, A., Skeat, J., & Taylor, N. (2004). Validity of the AusTOM scales: a comparison of the AusTOMs and EuroQol-5D. Health & Quality of Life Outcomes, 2, http://www.hqlo.com/content/2/1/64.

98. Kenny, A. J., & Duckett, S. J. (2004). A question of place: medical power in rural Australia, Social Science & Medicine, 58, 1059-1073.

99. Duckett, S. J. (2004). The Australian Health Care Agreements 2003-2008. Australian & New Zealand Health Policy, 1, http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/1/1/5.

100. Duckett, S. (2005). Australia. In R. Gauld (Ed.), Comparative health policy in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 91-121). Maidenhead: Open University Press.

101. Duckett, S. J. (2005). Private care and public waiting. Australian Health Review, 29(1), 87-93.

102. Duckett, S. J. (2005). Health workforce design for the 21st century. Australian Health Review, 29(2), 201-210.

103. Kenny, A. J., & Duckett, S. (2005). An online study of Australian Enrolled Nurse conversion. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 49(4), 423-431.\

104. Gleeson, P., & Duckett, S. (2005). Modeling the emergency ambulance pass-by of small rural hospitals in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Rural Health, 21(4), 367-371.

105. Duncan-Marr, A., & Duckett, S.J. (2005). Board self-evaluation: the Bayside Health experience. Australian Health Review, 29(3), 340-344.

106. Morris, M., Perry, A., Unsworth, C., Skeat, J., Taylor, N., Dodd, K., Duncombe, D., & Duckett, S. (2005). Reliability of the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures for quantifying disability and health. International Journal of Therapy & Rehabilitation, 12(8), 340-346.

107. Duckett, S.J. (2005). Interventions to facilitate health workforce restructure, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 2, 14. Retrieved July 28, 2006, from http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/2/1/14.

108. Duckett, S. (2005). The Australian healthcare workforce. In P. Stanton, E. Willis, & S. Young (Eds.), Workplace reform in the healthcare industry: the Australian experience (pp. 30-59). Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave Macmillan.

109. Duckett, S. J. (2005). Living in the parallel universe in Australia: public Medicare and private hospitals. CMAJ 173(7), 745-747.

110. Jackson, T., Duckett, S., Shepheard, J. and Baxter, K. (2006). Measurement of adverse events using 'incidence flagged' diagnosis codes. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 11(1), 21-26.

111. Kingwell, B. A., Anderson, G. P., Duckett, S. J., Hoole, E. A., Jackson-Pulver, L. R., Khachigian, L. M., et al. (2006). Evaluation of NHMRC funded research completed in 1992, 1997 and 2003: gains in knowledge, health and wealth. Medical Journal of Australia, 184(6), 282-286.

112. Ehsani, J. P., Jackson, T., Duckett, S. J. (2006). The incidence and cost of adverse events in Victorian hospitals 2003-04. Medical Journal of Australia, 184(11), 551-555.

113. Duckett, S. J. (2006). Next steps in health workforce reform. Australian Economic Review, 39(3), 318-322.

114. Gray, L. C., Broe, G. A., Duckett, S. J., Gibson, D. M., Travers, C., McDonnell, G. (2006). Developing a policy simulator at the acute-aged care interface. Australian Health Review, 30(4), 450-457.

115. Ehsani, J. P., Duckett, S. J, Jackson, T. (2007). The incidence and cost of cardiac surgery adverse events in Australian (Victorian) hospitals 2003-2004. European Journal of Health Economics, Mar 9, Epub.

116. Duckett, S. J. (2007). A new approach to clinical governance in Queensland. Australian Health Review, 31(Supp 1), S16-S19.

117. Duckett, S., Coory, M. (2007). Identifying variations in quality of care in Queensland hospitals. Medical Journal of Australia, in press.

118. Johnston, T. C., Coory, M. D., et al. (2007). Should we add clinical variables to administrative data? The case of risk-adjusted case fatality rates following admission for acute myocardial infarction. Medical Care, in press.

119. Duckett, S. (2007). Casemix development and implementation in Australia. In J. Kimberly (Ed.), Health policy and management evolving: patient classification systems around the globe, Cambridge University Press.

120. Ward, M., Daniels, S., Walker, G. J., Duckett, S. (2007). Connecting funds with outcomes in healthcare: a blueprint for a 'Clinical Practice Improvement Payment'. Australian Health Review, 31 (Suppl 1), S54-S58.

121. Duckett, S. J. (2007). The Australian Health Care System (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

122. Duckett, S. J. (2007)). Social policy at the 2004 election. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 42(3), 289-301.

123. Swerissen, H., Duckett, S. (2007). Health policy for a long lived society. In A. Borowski, S. Encel & E. Ozanne. (Eds), Longevity and social change in Australia (pp. 167-188). Sydney, UNSW Press.

124. Coory, M., Duckett, S., Sketcher-Baker, K. (2008). Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 20(1), 31-39.

125. Duckett, S., Ward, M. (2008). Developing ‘robust performance benchmarks’ for the next Australian Health Care Agreement: the need for a new framework. Australia & New Zealand Health Policy 5:1, Epub.

 

 


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