1. Preface

   • Yasar A. Ozcan

   EditorialNotes Pages: XI - XII

2. Understanding variations in hospital costs: An economics perspective

   • Michael D. Rosko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 21

3. A primer: Health care databases, diagnostic coding, severity adjustment systems and improved parameter estimation

   • Michael Shwartz
   • Lisa I. Iezzoni
   • Joseph D. Restuccia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 44

4. Risk-adjusted control charts for health care assessment

   • Farrokh Alemi
   • Walter Rom
   • Eric Eisenstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 60

5. Trends in labor efficiency among American hospital markets

   • Yasar A. Ozcan
   • Shu-Chuan Yeh
   • James W. Begun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 81

6. Benchmarking physician practice patterns with DEA: A multi-stage approach for cost containment

   • Jon A. Chilingerian
   • H. David Sherman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 116

7. Cost pass-through reimbursement to hospitals and their impacts on operating efficiencies

   • Richard C. Morey
   • David A. Dittman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 139

8. Data envelopment analysis applied to quality in primary health care

   • Javier Salinas-Jiménez
   • Peter Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 161

9. A comparison of shadow prices and reimbursement rates of hospital services

   • J. Clement
   • S. Grosskopf
   • V. Valdmanis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 182

10. Simulation modeling for emergency bed requirement planning

    • I Kuban Altιnel
    • Esra Ulaş

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 210

11. Patient risk in anesthesia: Probabilistic risk analysis and management improvements

    • Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
    • Dean Murphy
    • David Gaba

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 233

12. Statistical and economic models for analysis and optimal design of laboratory screening policies for cervical cancer

    • James C. Benneyan
    • Frank C. Kaminsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 285