Economic Analysis for Health Service Efficiency: Econometric Studies of the British National Health Service |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 4 |
MEASUREMENTS OF COST AND PRODUCTIVITY IN ACUTE HOSPITALS | 9 |
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28 case types acute hospitals adjusted analysis assumption available beds average cost function bed availability bed supply calculated case-flow rate casemix differences cent chapter Cobb-Douglas constraints correlation cost curve cost per patient costliness values decrease doctors drugs and dressings duration of stay economic effect elasticity with respect equation exogenous expenditure factors groups Gynaecology homoscedastic hospital admission hospital beds hospital costs hospital's hypothesis increase indicate individual input efficiency instrumental variable estimates larger hospitals least squares estimates length of stay linear linear programming marginal cost maternity matrix mean stay measure medical staff Ministry of Health National Health Service number of available number of beds nursing observed Obstetrics obtained optimum ordinary least squares output parameters percentage occupancy perinatal mortality practitioner problem production function ratio regression coefficients regression fallacy relation relative cost residuals shadow prices social class specification standard error substantial surgery TABLE tion treated utilization variation vector waiting list