Table 6.

Willingness to wait trade-offs between service characteristics

	Marginal willingness to wait in minutes to gain improvement (with 95% CIs)
Perceived improvement in service characteristics	S1	S2	S3	S4
ED clinician instead of an emergency health professional	37.0 (30.7 to 43.4)	22.0 (9.6 to 34.4)	60.2 (46.3 to 76.1)	24.0 (15.0 to 33.1)
ED clinician instead of GP	27.5 (23.3 to 32.7)
Treatment at hospital instead of home	12.1 (7.0 to 17.2)
Treatment at home instead of hospital		29.4 (16.3 to 42.5)
Treatment at home instead of a local clinic	5.2 (0.3 to 10.2)
For every $A1 reduction in cost	1.6 (1.4 to 1.7)	2.9 (2.4 to 3.4)	1.5 (1.3 to 1.8)	1.7 (1.4 to 1.9)
Comprehensive care compared with basic treatment from a clinician you can understand with no interruptions	104.9 (90.5 to 119.3)	149.2 (110.4 to 188.1)	171.8 (136.3 to 207.4)	104.7 (82.5 to 128.0)
Basic treatment from a clinician you understand compared with basic treatment from a clinician you cannot understand and some interruptions	33.1 (28.0 to 38.2)	29.5 (17.1 to 41.8)	57.5 (45.8 to 69.2)	30.0 (21.6 to 38.4)

ED, emergency department; GP, general practitioner.