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  1. The false promise of Primary Health Network generalist needs assessments

    Article • Australian Journal of Primary Health, July 2026, CSIRO Publishing

    Stephen Duckett

  2. Australia's Specialist Fee Failure: Three Principles for a Way Forward

    Article • Australian Economic Review, February 2026, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  3. The National Health Reform Agreement as an Instrument of Broader Health Reform

    Article • Journal of Australian Studies, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Duckett

  4. Privatisation and health care

    Article • June 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Stephen Duckett

  5. Facilitating the future of small rural hospitals

    Article • Australian Journal of Rural Health, December 2024, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  6. Borders within Borders within Borders

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Duckett

  7. Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, July 2023, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  8. Public Health Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: The Role of the Morrison Government

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Stephen Duckett

  9. Challenges of economic evaluation in rare diseases

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, January 2022, BMJ

    Stephen Duckett

  10. The Role of Abimelech’s Arms Bearer: A Biblical Acceptance of Assisted Dying?

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Duckett

  11. On entering Australia’s third year with COVID‐19

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, October 2021, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  12. Australia's Response to COVID-19

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, July 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Stephen Duckett

  13. The problematic place of private payment for healthcare in Australia

    Article • Healthcare Management Forum, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  14. The long and winding road to assisted dying in Australia

    Article • Australian Journal of Social Issues, September 2019, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  15. Australia’s new digital health record created ethical dilemmas

    Article • Healthcare Management Forum, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  16. Pathos, death talk and palliative care in the assisted dying debate in Victoria, Australia

    Article • Mortality, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Stephen Duckett

  17. The Canadian health system’s “administrative efficiency” is a problem

    Article • Healthcare Management Forum, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  18. Pathways to DRG-based hospital payment systems in Japan, Korea, and Thailand

    Article • Health Policy, July 2018, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  19. Aligning policy objectives and payment design in palliative care

    Article • BMC Palliative Care, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  20. Expanding the breadth of Medicare: learning from Australia

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Stephen Duckett

  21. Knowing, Anticipating, Even Facilitating but Still not Intending: Another Challenge to Double Effect Reasoning

    Article • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  22. Medicare at Middle Age: Adapting a Fundamentally Good System

    Article • Australian Economic Review, August 2015, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  23. What can we do to help Australians die the way they want to?

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, January 2015, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Stephen Duckett

  24. Activity-Based Funding of Hospitals and Its Impact on Mortality, Readmission, Discharge Destination, Severity of Illness, and Volume of Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Stephen Duckett

  25. Priorities for a new government: keeping the Medicare promise, thinking beyond services and getting governance right

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, February 2014, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Stephen Duckett

  26. Tracking devices with bar codes is a way to monitor their safety

    Article • BMJ, May 2013, BMJ

    Stephen Duckett

  27. Development of an interactive model for planning the care workforce for Alberta: case study

    Article • Human Resources for Health, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  28. Designing incentives for good-quality hospital care

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, June 2012, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Stephen Duckett

  29. Planning to meet the care need challenge in Alberta, Canada

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, June 2012, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  30. Care trajectories through community and residential aged care services: disease effects

    Article • Ageing and Society, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yvonne D Wells, Stephen Duckett

  31. Using Quality Improvement Methods at the System Level to Improve Hospital Emergency Department Treatment Times

    Article • Quality Management in Health Care, January 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Stephen Duckett

  32. Can Alberta's primary care networks provide any lessons for Medicare Locals?

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, January 2011, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Stephen Duckett

  33. Second Wave Reform in Alberta

    Article • Healthcare Management Forum, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  34. Empirical aspects of record linkage across multiple data sets using statistical linkage keys: the experience of the PIAC cohort study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yvonne D Wells, Stephen Duckett

  35. The geographic distribution of private health insurance in Australia in 2001

    Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  36. Using routine inpatient data to identify patients at risk of hospital readmission

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  37. Health care leadership, quality and safety

    Article • Australian Health Review, January 2009, CSIRO Publishing

    Stephen Duckett

  38. Leadership transformation in Queensland Health

    Article • Australian Health Review, January 2009, CSIRO Publishing

    Stephen Duckett

  39. The acute-aged care interface: Exploring the dynamics of ‘bed blocking’

    Article • Australasian Journal on Ageing, September 2008, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  40. Pay for performance in Australia: Queensland's new Clinical Practice Improvement Payment

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, July 2008, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  41. Developing 'robust performance benchmarks' for the next Australian Health Care Agreement: the need for a new framework

    Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  42. Design of price incentives for adjunct policy goals in formula funding for hospitals and health services

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  43. Should We Add Clinical Variables to Administrative Data?

    Article • Medical Care, December 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Stephen Duckett

  44. Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, November 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Stephen Duckett

  45. The incidence and cost of cardiac surgery adverse events in Australian (Victorian) hospitals 2003–2004

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  46. Next Steps in Health Workforce Reform

    Article • Australian Economic Review, September 2006, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  47. The implications of open access publishing for the medical community

    Article • Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health, December 2005, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  48. Modeling the Emergency Ambulance Pass-By of Small Rural Hospitals in Victoria, Australia

    Article • The Journal of Rural Health, October 2005, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  49. Living in the parallel universe in Australia: public Medicare and private hospitals

    Article • Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2005, Canadian Medical Association (CMA)

    Stephen Duckett

  50. Reliability of the Australian Therapy Outcome Measures for quantifying disability and health

    Article • International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, August 2005, Mark Allen Group

    Stephen Duckett

  51. An online study of Australian Enrolled Nurse conversion

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, February 2005, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  52. Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  53. Therapy outcome measures for allied health practitioners in Australia: the AusTOMs

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, August 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Stephen Duckett

  54. Describing Chinese hospital activity with diagnosis related groups (DRGs)

    Article • Health Policy, July 2004, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  55. A question of place: medical power in rural Australia

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2004, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  56. Turning right at the crossroads: The Nelson Report's proposals to transform Australia's universities

    Article • Higher Education, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  57. Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  58. Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  59. Article • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stephen Duckett

  60. Educating for rural nursing practice

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, December 2003, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  61. Rational care before rationed care

    Article • Internal Medicine Journal, October 2002, Wiley

    Stephen Duckett

  62. Paying for hospital emergency care under a single-payer system

    Article • Annals of Emergency Medicine, March 2001, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  63. Does it matter who owns health facilities?

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, January 2001, SAGE Publications

    Stephen Duckett

  64. Does Wimpole Street stretch to Australia?

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, August 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Stephen Duckett

  65. A therapy-relevant casemix classification system for school-age children with disabilities

    Article • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, May 2000, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  66. Are waiting lists inevitable?

    Article • Health Policy, April 1996, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  67. Hospital payment arrangements to encourage efficiency: the case of Victoria, Australia

    Article • Health Policy, November 1995, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  68. Structural interests and Australian health policy

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 1984, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  69. Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 1983, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  70. Operations research and nurse staffing

    Article • International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, September 1981, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  71. The emphasis and effect of hospital accreditation on nursing services

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, January 1981, Elsevier

    Stephen Duckett

  72. Casemix development and implementation in Australia

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Stephen Duckett