Background: Although there is broad policy consensus that both cost containment and
quality improvement are critical, the association between costs and quality is poorly …

Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the …

This paper applies a new methodology to the study of hospital efficiency and quality of care.
Using a data set of hospitals from several states, we jointly evaluate desirable hospital …

Objective. To use an advance in data envelopment analysis (DEA) called congestion
analysis to assess the trade‐offs between quality and efficiency in US hospitals. Study …

This paper develops and estimates a model for the choice of part-time and full-time
employment and the decision to pay for childcare among single mothers. The results …

Background Fiscal constraints faced by US hospitals as a result of the recent economic
downturn are leading to business practices that reduce costs and improve financial and …

The purpose of this study was to develop new estimates of the costs of care following spinal
cord injury in the United States. Information from the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical …

The influence of IT investment on hospital efficiency and quality are of great interest to
healthcare executives as well as insurers. Few studies have examined how IT investments …

This paper investigates long‐term home care utilization in Europe. Data from the first wave
of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) on formal (nursing care and paid …

Observed variation in hospital costs may be attributable to differences in patients' health
outcomes. Previous studies have resorted to inherently incomplete outcome measures such …