Estimation of hospital efficiency-Do different definitions and casemix measures for hospital output affect the results?

Health Policy

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-159

  Vitikainen, Kirsi ^a,b   Street, Andrew ^a   Linna, Miika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Hospitals; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FINLAND; HOSPITALS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 58349083667     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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