On the estimation of hospital cost: the approach
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Keywords
hospital cost; cost estimation; multiproduct analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2010-05-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HEA-2010-05-29 (Health Economics)
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