Quality Improvement in Health Care:  a Framework for Price and Output Measurement

Shapiro, Irving; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Wilcox, David W.

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Quality Improvement in Health Care: a Framework for Price and Output Measurement

NBER Working Paper No. w6971

13 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 1999 Last revised: 21 Jul 2022

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Matthew D. Shapiro

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

David W. Wilcox

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Date Written: February 1999

Abstract

The durability of health care treatment, the substantial technical change in health care treatment, and the prevalence of third-party payment interact to create substantial difficulty in measuring the price and output of health care. This paper provides a framework for analyzing the demand for health care taking into account these difficulties. It then suggests how this framework might be used to improve measurement of health care prices and output.

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Shapiro, Irving and Shapiro, Matthew D. and Wilcox, David W., Quality Improvement in Health Care: a Framework for Price and Output Measurement (February 1999). NBER Working Paper No. w6971, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=151597