Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement

Irving Shapiro, Matthew Shapiro and David Wilcox

No 6971, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The durability of health care treatment, the substantial technical change in health care treatment, and the prevalence of third-party payment interact to create substantial difficulty in measuring the price and output of health care. This paper provides a framework for analyzing the demand for health care taking into account these difficulties. It then suggests how this framework might be used to improve measurement of health care prices and output.

JEL-codes: I10 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-02
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Published as American Economic Review Proceedings, Vol. 89 (May 1999): 333-337.

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