Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Adam, Taghreed ^a   Evans, David B ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1042270690     PISSN: 14787547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-1-3     Document Type: Article

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