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Some Problems in the Measurement of Productivity in the Medical Care Industry
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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity.read more
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Motivating the Client/Employee System as a Service Production Strategy
TL;DR: In service organizations in which the client/customer is directly involved in the production function, improved performance can be secured by viewing the customer as a "partial" employee, which leads to the suggestion that productivity gains can be realized for services by expanding conventional motivation concepts to include the client.
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The Growing Demand for Medical Care
TL;DR: A sharp upsurge of interest in the economics of health has been witnessed in recent years as mentioned in this paper, with physicians, hospital administrators, public-health officials and other health experts becoming more interested in health economics.
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Medical Care Prices and Output
Ernst R. Berndt,David M. Cutler,Richard G. Frank,Zvi Griliches,Joseph P. Newhouse,Jack E. Triplett +5 more
TL;DR: The conceptual and measurement issues that underlie the construction of medical care price indexes in the US, focusing in particular on the medical care consumer price indexes (MCPIs) and medical-related producer price index (MPPIs), are discussed in this paper.
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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes
TL;DR: The incremental cost of successfully treating an episode of acute phase major depression has generally fallen over the 1991-96 time period, and the source of the spending increases is volume (quantity) increases, and not price increases.
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Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: an Overview of Measurement Issues
Ernst R. Berndt,Ernst R. Berndt,David M. Cutler,David M. Cutler,Richard G. Frank,Richard G. Frank,Zvi Griliches,Joseph P. Newhouse,Jack E. Triplett +8 more
TL;DR: Signs of the failure of transactions data in this market to reveal reliable marginal valuations are discussed, and the consequent need to augment traditional transactions data with information based on cost-effectiveness and outcomes studies is discussed.