On the effect of prospective payment on local hospital competition in Germany

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-62

  Herwartz, Helmut ^a   Strumann, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Diagnosis related groups; Hospital efficiency; Spatial analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; GERMANY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856251566     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-011-9180-9     Document Type: Article

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