Hospital productivity bias when not adjusting for cost heterogeneity: The case of Spain.

This research quantifies the bias caused in hospital productivity measurements when cost heterogeneity is not considered. A multi-output stochastic cost frontier under a normalised translog specification is used to approximate the structure of technology of a sample of public general hospitals in Sp...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Arvelo-Martín, Juan José Díaz-Hernández, Ignacio Abásolo-Alessón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218367