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Hospital Cost Analysis
J.R.G. Butler
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Description for Hospital Cost Analysis
Hardback. Provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments. This book brings together the literature on hospital cost analysis with theoretical developments in the analysis of the multiproduct cost functions. Series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 415 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 760.
Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs 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 discussion of the concept measurement and classification of hospital output is provided. A fundamental dilemma confronting economists interested in estimating hospital cost functions is highlighted, viz. the trade-off between flexibility in functional form and homogeneity within hospital output categories. Empirical results on the effects of case mix, scale ... Read more
Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs 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 discussion of the concept measurement and classification of hospital output is provided. A fundamental dilemma confronting economists interested in estimating hospital cost functions is highlighted, viz. the trade-off between flexibility in functional form and homogeneity within hospital output categories. Empirical results on the effects of case mix, scale ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
Series
Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
Number of Pages
393
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792332473
SKU
V9780792332473
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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