title: Choice of dialysis treatment and type of medical unit (private vs public): application of a recursive bivariate probit.
abstract: ESRD patients have to deal with two choices: the first is related to the dialysis modality; the second concerns the type of dialysis unit (public vs private) where to undertake the treatment. Such a choice is related to unobservable factors, among which there might be patients' clinical factors as well as factors related to the characteristics of each unit. We employ a recursive bivariate probit estimation on a sample of ESRD Sicilian patients in order to evaluate the impact of these factors. Results can have important implications for Sicily in order to organize dialysis services: here, in fact, the number of private centres is higher than in other Italian Regions.
authors.affiliation: DESAT--Sezione di Economia e Finanza, Università di Messina, Piazza Pugliatti, I-98100 Messina, Italy. Lara.Gitto@unime.it
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gitto
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sobbrio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003956:Dialysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017059:Models, Econometric; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D012802:Sicily