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The Quality of Hospital Services: An Analysis of Geographic Variation and Intertemporal Change

In: The Economics of Health and Medical Care

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  • Martin S. Feldstein

    (Harvard University)

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In studying the operation of any nation’s health care system, it is useful to have an economic measure of the quality of care that is provided at different times and places. This paper discusses the conceptual problems of defining an aggregate quality index and develops the formulae required to make this operation. A price index for hospitals’ non-labor inputs is constructed, using weights based on the 1963 United States input-output study. The substantial and persistent variation in the overall price of inputs is then analyzed with a cross-section of time-series data. The same sample is then used to examine the intertemporal change and geographic variation in the quality of hospital services.

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  • Martin S. Feldstein, 1974. "The Quality of Hospital Services: An Analysis of Geographic Variation and Intertemporal Change," International Economic Association Series, in: Mark Perlman (ed.), The Economics of Health and Medical Care, chapter 20, pages 402-427, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-63660-0_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_20
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