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A primer: Health care databases, diagnostic coding, severity adjustment systems and improved parameter estimation Michael ShwartzLisa I. IezzoniJoseph D. Restuccia OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 44
Risk-adjusted control charts for health care assessment Farrokh AlemiWalter RomEric Eisenstein OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 60
Trends in labor efficiency among American hospital markets Yasar A. OzcanShu-Chuan YehJames W. Begun OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 81
Benchmarking physician practice patterns with DEA: A multi-stage approach for cost containment Jon A. ChilingerianH. David Sherman OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 116
Cost pass-through reimbursement to hospitals and their impacts on operating efficiencies Richard C. MoreyDavid A. Dittman OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 139
Data envelopment analysis applied to quality in primary health care Javier Salinas-JiménezPeter Smith OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 161
A comparison of shadow prices and reimbursement rates of hospital services J. ClementS. GrosskopfV. Valdmanis OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 182
Simulation modeling for emergency bed requirement planning I Kuban AltιnelEsra Ulaş OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 210
Patient risk in anesthesia: Probabilistic risk analysis and management improvements Elisabeth Paté-CornellDean MurphyDavid Gaba OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 233
Statistical and economic models for analysis and optimal design of laboratory screening policies for cervical cancer James C. BenneyanFrank C. Kaminsky OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 285