Hospital Services and Efficiency

Peter Zweifel (), Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann ()
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Peter Zweifel: University of Zurich
Mathias Kifmann: University of Augsburg

Chapter 9 in Health Economics, 2009, pp 311-329 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In debates about the economic problems of health care, the hospital plays a key role. This is due to the quantitative importance of the hospital industry. In many industrialized countries, hospital services account for the largest single block of health care expenditure. In 2005, most OECD countries spend more than a third of health care expenditure on hospital services [see OECD (2008)].

Keywords: Cost Function; Data Envelopment Analysis; Health Care Expenditure; Hospital Service; Stochastic Frontier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68540-1_9

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