Measuring inpatient and outpatient costs: A cost-function approach
Measuring inpatient and outpatient costs: A cost-function approach
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衡量住院和门诊费用：成本函数方法
作者：
K. Carey;T. Stefos
在这篇文章中，作者估计了1984- 1988年期间2，235家医院样本的多输出成本函数，以将总成本分解为住院和门诊部分。结果表明，门诊费用的增长大致成正比的住院费用，尽管更高的相对增长的收入和利用门诊侧。门诊/住院费用比率的稳定意味着门诊与住院使用比率的增加被其相对单位费用的下降所抵消。
In this article, the authors estimate a multiple-output cost function for a sample of 2,235 hospitals during the period 1984-88 to disaggregate total costs into inpatient and outpatient components. The results suggest that outpatient cost growth is roughly proportional to that of inpatient cost, despite much higher relative growth in revenues and utilization on the outpatient side. The stability in the outpatient/inpatient cost ratio implies that the increase in the outpatient-to-inpatient utilization ratio was offset by a decline in their relative unit costs.