Reference-cost figures could be much improved by application of a blunt instrument
Before the advent of league tables - and even before the dawn of the Thatcher era - hospitals were required to publish figures for costs per inpatient week. High-spending institutions were exhorted to investigate reasons for their supposed poor performance. The naivety of this approach was exposed by an economist ...
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