Variation in public hospital costs for children and young patients from priority populations: An Australian health service economic analysis

• Rezwanul Rana ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rezwanul.rana@mq.edu.au

  Affiliation Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy and Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3347-3205

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• Karen Zwi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jahidur Rahman Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Seaneen Wallace,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1137-9338

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• Raghu Lingam,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Henry Cutler

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy and Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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