The association of hospital cost-inefficiency with certificate-of-need regulation

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 280-298

  Rosko, Michael D ^a   Mutter, Ryan L ^b  

^a WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

certificate of need; efficiency; hospitals; stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MIX; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST INEFFICIENCY; EMERGENCY CARE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CERTIFICATE OF NEED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899863544     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: 15526801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558713519167     Document Type: Article

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