In the United States various forms of managed care have been introduced to control the use of expensive medical services. One of the most prominent involves utilization review of hospital admissions. While reviewing the appropriateness of inpatient treatment is appealing in principle, its...

This paper develops a new microanalytic approach to physician medical decision-making treatment setting. Physician medical decision-making is modelled as a two-stage sequential process. In Stage 1, the patient's illness is diagnosed and the health outcomes for all illness-related restoration...

This paper analyzes the patterns of clinial treatments prescribed to patients diagnosed with schizophrenia who were admitted to state and county mental hospitals, private for-profit psychiatric hospitals, and private nonprofit psychiatric hospitals in July 1980. Treatment patterns were specified...