Factors underlying the growth of hospital expenditure in Spain in a period of unexpected economic shocks: A dynamic analysis on administrative data

Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Manuel Ridao-López and Andreu Sansó

Health Policy, 2020, vol. 124, issue 4, 389-396

Abstract: We sought to understand the evolution of Spanish public hospital expenditure by assessing its elasticity to volume versus price, controlling for need and case severity, from January 2003 to December 2015, a period of unexpected economic shocks.

Keywords: Hospital expenditure evolution; Determinants of hospital expenditure; Time series analysis; Macroeconomic cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.02.001

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