Hospital cost efficiency: an examination of US acute care inpatient hospitals
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Cost inefficiency; Economies of scale; Principal components; Stochastic frontier analysis; Value-based purchasing;All these keywords.
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- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
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