title: Benefit efficient statistical distributions on patient lists.
abstract: In this paper, we consider statistical distributions of different types of patients on the patient lists of doctors. In our framework different types of patients have different preferences regarding their preferred choice of doctor. Assuming that the system is benefit efficient in the sense that distributions with larger total utility have higher probability, we can construct unique probability measures describing the statistical distribution of the different types of patients.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. jan.uboe@nhh.no
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ubøe
authors.forename: Jostein
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lillestøl
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D010361:Patients; D013222:State Medicine; D016008:Statistical Distributions; D014850:Waiting Lists