Is Satisfaction with the Acute-Care Experience Higher amongst Consumers Treated in the Private Sector? A Survey of Public and Private Sector Arthroplasty Recipients

• Justine M. Naylor ,

  * E-mail: Justine.Naylor@sswahs.nsw.gov.au

  Affiliations Orthopaedic Department, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, South West Clinical School UNSW, Randwick, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

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• Joseph Descallar,

  Affiliations South West Clinical School UNSW, Randwick, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

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• Mechteld Grootemaat,

  Affiliation University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• Helen Badge,

  Affiliations Orthopaedic Department, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, South West Clinical School UNSW, Randwick, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

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• Ian A. Harris,

  Affiliations Orthopaedic Department, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, South West Clinical School UNSW, Randwick, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

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• Grahame Simpson,

  Affiliations Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Deanne Jenkin

  Affiliations Orthopaedic Department, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, South West Clinical School UNSW, Randwick, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Health Research, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

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