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- Title
Productivity and Incentives in the Medical Care Sector.
- Authors
Weisbrod, Burton A.
- Abstract
Measuring "productivity" in the health care sector is unusually complex. While focusing on several traditional measures of "output" in the health sector, two more encompassing measures, i.e., the quality adjusted life year and the level of patient satisfaction, are also considered. It is also shown that measures designed to gauge productivity in the medical care sector have unintended repercussions on incentives to allocate resources.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL productivity; HEALTH care industry; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); QUALITY of life; PATIENT satisfaction; RESOURCE allocation
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1992, Vol 94, pS131
- ISSN
0347-0520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3440253