| 书目名称 | Hospital Cost Analysis | | 编辑 | J. R. G. Butler | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Hospital Cost Analysis. provides an overview oftheoretical developments in the economic analysis of production andcosts in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments.Following a lucid explanation of the concepts of jointness,input/output separability and returns to scale, a detailed discussionof the concept measurement and classification of hospital output isprovided. A fundamental dilemma confronting economists interested inestimating hospital cost functions is highlighted, viz. the trade-offbetween flexibility in functional form and homogeneity within hospitaloutput categories. Empirical results on the effects of case mix, scaleand utilisation, public/private ownership, and the centralisedadministration of hospital systems on hospital costs are presented.The implications of hospital cost analysis for public policy withrespect to hospital payment schemes, including schemes based onDiagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), are also considered. This book bringstogether the literature on hospital cost analysis with theoreticaldevelopments in the analysis of the multiproduct cost functions. Itwill be of considerable interest to teachers and students of healtheconomics and health | | 出版日期 | Book 1995 | | 关键词 | calculus; economics; health; health policy; hospital; production | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0179-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-4080-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-0179-0Series ISSN 0927-4987 | | issn_series | 0927-4987 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995 |
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