Introduction to economic analysis in health care -- The demand for health care -- The production and costs of health care -- The supply of health care -- Markets, market failure, and the role of government in health care -- Health insurance and health care financing -- Equity in health care --...

Accounting for variation in the quality of care is a major challenge for the assessment of hospital cost performance. Because data on patients’ health improvement are generally not available, existing studies have resorted to inherently incomplete outcome measures such as mortality or...