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Information Theory and the Analysis of Hospital Cost Structure

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  • Robert G. Evans
  • Hugh D. Walker

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  • Robert G. Evans & Hugh D. Walker, 1972. "Information Theory and the Analysis of Hospital Cost Structure," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 5(3), pages 398-418, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:5:y:1972:i:3:p:398-418
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    1. Zind, Richard G. & Doutriaux, J., 1980. "Estimation comparative des rendements des facteurs de production dans le secteur hospitalier canadien," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 56(4), pages 611-617, octobre-d.
    2. Alan Hochstein, 1984. "A Cost Comparison in the Treatment of Long Stay Patients," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 10(2), pages 177-184, June.
    3. Helmut Herwartz & Christoph Strumann, 2014. "Hospital efficiency under prospective reimbursement schemes: an empirical assessment for the case of Germany," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 15(2), pages 175-186, March.
    4. Mariani, Laura & Cavenago, Dario, 2014. "Defining hospital's internal boundaries. An organisational complexity criterion," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(2), pages 239-246.
    5. Ivonne Lindlbauer & Jonas Schreyögg, 2014. "The relationship between hospital specialization and hospital efficiency: do different measures of specialization lead to different results?," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 365-378, December.
    6. Conrad Kobel & Engelbert Theurl, 2013. "Hospital specialisation within a DRG-Framework: The Austrian Case," Working Papers 2013-06, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
    7. Sung-hun Park & Joong Hoon Ko & Eun-song Bae & Meehyang Chang & Daecheol Kim, 2019. "The Impact of Hospital Specialization on Congestion and Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-14, March.
    8. Vassilis H. Aletras, 1999. "A comparison of hospital scale effects in short‐run and long‐run cost functions," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(6), pages 521-530, September.
    9. Wagstaff, Adam & Barnum, Howard, 1992. "Hospital cost functions for developing countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1044, The World Bank.
    10. Thomas Schaub, 1986. "Bestimmungsfaktoren der Kosten eines Allgemeinspitals," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 122(IV), pages 641-656, December.
    11. Han-Sung Kim & Young-Hoon Kim & Jung-Sik Woo & Sook-Jung Hyun, 2015. "An Analysis of Organizational Performance Based on Hospital Specialization Level and Strategy Type," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-14, July.
    12. Aletras, Vassilios & Kontodimopoulos, Nick & Zagouldoudis, Athanasios & Niakas, Dimitris, 2007. "The short-term effect on technical and scale efficiency of establishing regional health systems and general management in Greek NHS hospitals," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(2-3), pages 236-245, October.
    13. Helmut Herwartz & Christoph Strumann, 2012. "On the effect of prospective payment on local hospital competition in Germany," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 15(1), pages 48-62, March.
    14. Christoph Strumann & Alexander Geissler & Reinhard Busse & Christoph Pross, 2022. "Can competition improve hospital quality of care? A difference-in-differences approach to evaluate the effect of increasing quality transparency on hospital quality," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 23(7), pages 1229-1242, September.
    15. Petko Salchev & Petar Atanasov & Tatiana Dimitrova-Savova, 2015. "Cost structure of hospitals for the period 2012 -2014," Economic Thought journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 47-64.

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