Scale and quality in Nordic hospitals

Empirical analysis of hospitals in production economics often find little or no evidence of scale economies and quite small optimal sizes. Medical literature on the other hand provides evidence of better results for hospitals with a large volume of similar procedures. Based on a sample of Nordic hos...

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Main Authors: Sverre A.C. Kittelsen, Kjartan Sarheim Anthun, Unto Häkkinen, Marie Kruse, Clas Rehnberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2018-10-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Health Economics
Subjects:
SFA
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/NJHE/article/view/4801