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  • 09 Jan 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger; Health
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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  • May 2020
  • Article

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?

By: Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton and Douglas O. Staiger
Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Health Industry
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

these types of frames is essential. By using outcome frames to address immediate concerns and shifting to process frames to resolve longer-term tensions, leaders can build stakeholder support for complex... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

An Engine of Innovation

the life sciences ecosystem. We’ve had about 50 student- and alumni-affiliated teams work there. To be accepted, high-potential biotech and life sciences ventures go through a selection committee chaired... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie