Hospital costs and excess bed capacity: A statistical analysis

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 470-481

  Keeler, Theodore E ^b   Ying, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030507273     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2109794     Document Type: Article

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