Health care exceptionalism? Performance and allocation in the US health care sector

American Economic Review

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2110-2144

  Chandra, Amitabh ^a   Finkelstein, Amy ^b   Sacarny, Adam ^c   Syverson, Chad ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

^c Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER ATTITUDE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; REPLACEMENT ARTHROPLASTY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84983002144     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20151080     Document Type: Article

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