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

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.

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Year of publication:	1999-02
Authors:	Shapiro, Matthew D. ; Wilcox, David W. ; Shapiro, Irving
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	NBER Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	HC PR published as American Economic Review Proceedings, Vol. 89 (May 1999): 333-337. Number 6971
Classification:	O39 - Technological Change; Research and Development. Other ; I10 - Health. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10005829016