TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pauly,Mark
AU  - Satterthwaite,Mark A.
TI  - The Role of Physicians in the Production of Hospital Output
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 73
PY  - 1975
Y2  - February 1975
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0073
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0073.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mark Pauly
 Department of Health Care Management
University of Pennsylvania
208 Colonial Penn Center
3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA  19104-6218
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E-Mail: pauly@wharton.upenn.edu
AB  - The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of production functions for hospitals in which a measure of the level of physician input is utilized. Since no data on the total number of hours worked by non-salaried physicians is available for a large sample of U.S. hospitals, alternative measures of physician input had to be constructed. As these measures are somewhat imperfect, the results I obtain should be considered tentative and preliminary.
ER  -