Too many for too few? Efficiency among dentists working in private practice in Norway

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-497

  Grytten, Jostein ^a   Dalen, Dag Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Found Res in Econ and Bus Admin   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; EFFICIENCY; GROUP PRACTICE, DENTAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NORWAY; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031203619     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6296(96)00528-0     Document Type: Article

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