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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2007

Variable Details

Variableselhosp
LabelQSC.45 Best way of deciding who should be given an operation?
Question text And what about a hospital which has more patients needing heart surgery than the hospital can operate on. Which of these options do you think would be the best way of deciding who should be given an operation? Give priority to those who have been waiting longest, allow doctors to decide who is most in need, hold a ballot to select at random which patients should get an operation.
Responses
1 Give priority to those who have been waiting longest 360
2 Allow doctors to decide who is most in need 599
3 Hold a ballot to select at random which patients should get 8
4 Can t choose 0
8 Can't choose 78
-3 Skip, no self completion 124
-2 Skip 0
9 Not answered 10
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNorthern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2007
UniverseNorthern Irish adults;National;Adults aged 18 or over, living in private households in Northern Ireland during 2007
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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