Physician workload and hospital reimbursement: Overworked physicians generate less revenue per patient

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-528

  Powell, Adam ^a   Savin, Sergei ^a   Savva, Nicos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical; Healthcare reimbursement; Hospital operations; Workload management

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL REVENUE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL; ENDOGENEITY; SELECTION BIAS; WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 84868230570     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1120.0384     Document Type: Article

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