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The Role of Physicians in the Production of Hospital Output

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  • Mark Pauly
  • Mark A. Satterthwaite

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The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of production functions for hospitals in which a measure of the level of physician input is utilized. Since no data on the total number of hours worked by non-salaried physicians is available for a large sample of U.S. hospitals, alternative measures of physician input had to be constructed. As these measures are somewhat imperfect, the results I obtain should be considered tentative and preliminary.

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  • Mark Pauly & Mark A. Satterthwaite, 1975. "The Role of Physicians in the Production of Hospital Output," NBER Working Papers 0073, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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