How different are hospitals' responses to a financial reform? The impact on efficiency of activity-based financing

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Biørn, Erik ^a   Hagen, Terje P ^a   Iversen, Tor ^a   Magnussen, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Activity based financing; Health econometrics; Heterogeneity; Hospital efficiency; Panel data; Random coefficients; Rank correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NORWAY;

EID: 77349119424     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-009-9106-y     Document Type: Article

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