The cost efficiency and clinical quality of institutional long-term care for the elderly

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-156

  Laine, Juha ^a   Linna, Miika ^a   Noro, Anja ^a   Häkkinen, Unto ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Long term care; Minimum data set; Resident assessment instrument; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FINLAND; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 18844380739     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-005-0397-3     Document Type: Article

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