Costs and quality of hospitals in different health care systems: A multi-level approach with propensity score matching

Health Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-100

  Schreyögg, Jonas ^a,b,c   Stargardt, Tom ^a,b   Tiemann, Oliver ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; hospital costs; multilevel models; propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650276970     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1568     Document Type: Article

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