LIEN, HSIEN-MING; CHOU, SHIN-YI; LIU, JIN-TAN - In: Economic Inquiry 48 (2010) 3, pp. 668-689
"This article examines whether market competition affects treatment expenditure and health outcomes of stroke and cardiac treatment in Taiwan. Our measure of treatment expenditure is the hospital expenditure paid at the index admission (short term) and the sum of inpatient and outpatient...