TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shapiro,Irving
AU  - Shapiro,Matthew D.
AU  - Wilcox,David W.
TI  - Quality Improvement in Health Care:  A Framework for Price and Output Measurement
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6971
PY  - 1999
Y2  - February 1999
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6971
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6971.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Irving Shapiro

Matthew D. Shapiro
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
611 Tappan St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/764-5419
Fax: 734 764-2769
E-Mail: shapiro@umich.edu

David Wilcox
Federal Reserve Board
20th and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551
Tel: 202/452-2991
Fax: 202/452-5296
E-Mail: david.w.wilcox@frb.gov
AB  - 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.
ER  -