Does increased health care spending afford better health care outcomes? Evidence from Austrian health care expenditure since the initiation of DRGs

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages

  Vavken, Patrick ^a,b,c   Pagenstert, Geert ^a   Grimm, Christoph ^d   Dorotka, Ronald ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^e Orthopaedic City Center Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Health care spending; Health outcomes; Regression modeling; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTION; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; AUSTRIA; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUSTRIA; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863733508     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13589     Document Type: Article

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