Truly inefficient or providing better quality of care? analysing the relationship between risk-adjusted hospital costs and patients' health outcomes

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 931-947

  Gutacker, Nils ^a   Bojke, Chris ^a   Daidone, Silvio ^a   Devlin, Nancy J ^b   Parkin, David ^c   Street, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Office of Health Economics   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS South East Coast ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cost quality relationship; efficiency; hospital costs; patient reported outcomes (PRO)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERNIOPLASTY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VARICOSIS; VEIN SURGERY;

COST-QUALITY RELATIONSHIP; EFFICIENCY; HOSPITAL COSTS; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES (PRO);

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 84880133661     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2871     Document Type: Article

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