Costs and quality of hospitals in different health care systems: a multi-level approach with propensity score matching

Cross‐country comparisons of costs and quality between hospitals are often made at the macro level. The goal of this study was to explore methods to compare micro‐level data from hospitals in different health care systems. To do so, we developed a multi‐level framework in combination with a propensi...

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Published in:	Health economics Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 85 - 100
Main Authors:	Schreyögg, Jonas, Stargardt, Tom, Tiemann, Oliver
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.2011 Wiley-Blackwell Wiley Periodicals Inc
Series:	Health Economics
Subjects:	acute myocardial infarction Aged Case studies Comparative analysis Data Delivery of Health Care Economic models Germany - epidemiology Health care Health care expenditures Health economics Health services Heart attacks hospital costs Hospital Costs - statistics & numerical data Hospital Mortality - trends Hospitals Hospitals - standards Humans Justification Male Matching Medical treatment Middle Aged Military hospitals multilevel models Myocardial infarction Myocardial Infarction - drug therapy Myocardial Infarction - economics Patients Propensity Propensity Score propensity score matching Quality of care Quality of Health Care Studies United States - epidemiology Veterans United States Germany United States > US
ISSN:	1057-9230, 1099-1050, 1099-1050
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