Title Evaluating hospital policy and performance : contributions from hospital policy and productivity research / edited by Jos L.T. Blank, Vivian G. Valdmanis

Edition 1st ed Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) Series Advances in health economics and health services research ; v. 18 Advances in health economics and health services research ; v. 18. Contents Part I : Introductory and methodological issues -- Productivity in hospital industry / Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis -- Measuring and decomposing productivity change : the basics / Bert M. Balk -- Measuring hospital services / James F. Burgess, Jr. -- Part II : Developments in hospital industry -- Hospital consolidation and integration activity in the United States / Gloria J. Bazzoli -- Organizational structure and productive efficiency of non-profit hospitals / Ila Semenick Alam and Gerald Granderson -- Innovations and productivity : an empirical investigation in Dutch hospital industry / Jos L.T. Blank -- Part III. Government policy -- The impact of ownership on the cost-efficiency of U.S. hospitals / Ryan L. Mutter and Michael D. Rosko -- Competition and market concentration / Nazmi Sari -- Efficiency and productivity changes in large urban hospitals 1994-2002 : ownership, markets, and the uninsured / Gary D. Ferrier and Vivian G. Valdmanis -- Part IV : Mangement policy and MTA -- Benchmarking Finnish hospitals / Miika Linna and Unto Häkkinen -- Efficiency in government-funded health care services : the use of non-health sector mechanisms to encourage efficiency / Abby L. Bloom -- Evaluating health care efficiency / Rolf Färe [and others] -- Part V : Concluding remarks -- Efficiency in hospital industry : summary and conclusions / Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis Summary A collection of articles by internationally known scholars in the field of productivity measurement and health economics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Hospitals -- Evaluation Hospitals -- Administration. Medical policy. Medical economics. Hospitals -- Business management. Hospital Administration Health Policy Economics, Medical MEDICAL -- Hospital Administration & Care. Hospitals -- Business management Hospitals -- Administration Hospitals -- Evaluation Medical economics Medical policy Form Electronic book Author Blank, J. L. T. Valdmanis, Vivian G ISBN 9780080556581 0080556582

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