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Title Health care costs : policies, economics and outcomes / editor, Brandon Hill
Published New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Health care in transition
Health care in transition series.
Contents HEALTH CARE COSTS POLICIES, ECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES ; HEALTH CARE COSTS POLICIES, ECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 INNOVATIVE ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR LONGITUDINAL MEDICAL COST DATA: TRANSLATING RESEARCH TO INFORM POLICY AND PRACTICE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE ; LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF COST IN HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS ; A. Analytical Issues Commonly Encountered in the Analysis of Longitudinal Medical Cost Data ; A1. Empirical Challenges in Analyzing Medical Costs Data
A2. Longitudinal Medical Cost Data A.2.1. Why Are the Data Important?; A.2.2. Data Availability ; B. Overview of Econometric Methods to Analyze Medical Costs in Cross-Sectional Data ; C. Recent Methodological Advances in Analyzing Longitudinal Medical Cost Data ; C1. Random Effects Multi-Part Models for Longitudinal Medical Cost Data; C.1.1. Random Effects Two-Part Model for Correlated Medical Costs; C.1.2. Random Effects Four-Part Model for Longitudinal Medical Costs ; C.2. Semiparametric Models for Nonlinear Covariate Effects
C.2.1. Overview of Models with Non-Linear Covariate Effect for Cross-Sectional DataC.2.2. Random Effects Approach for Longitudinal Data; C.2.3. Marginal Approach for Longitudinal Data ; C.2.4. Semiparametric Model in Random Effects 2PM; D. Review of Methods of Joint Modeling of Costs and Health Outcomes ; D.1. Joint Modeling Longitudinal Medical Costs and Mortality ; D.2. Joint Modeling Longitudinal Semi-Continuous Medical Costs and Survival ; D.3. Analysis of Longitudinal Medical Cost Data in the Presence of Informative Observational Times and a Dependent Terminal Event
E. Policy Implication E.1. Trend Analysis ; E.2. Impact of Disease on Cost ; E.3. Treatment Effect on Cost ; E.4. Overview of Application of Research Related to MEPS Data ; E.4.1. Previous Research Findings related to MEPS ; E.4.2. Analysis of Correlated Medical Costs in MEPS ; E.4.3. "Mapping" Studies in MEPS ; F. Discussion; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2 APPLICATION OF DA VINCIĀ® ROBOT IN GENERAL SURGERY: A COST ASSESSMENT ; ABSTRACT ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3 COST ANALYSIS OF DA VINCIĀ® ROBOT APPLICATION IN GYNAECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS ; ABSTRACT ; REFERENCES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Medical care, Cost of -- United States
Medical care, Cost of -- United States -- Statistics
Statistics.
Costs and Cost Analysis -- methods
Statistics as Topic
Robotic Surgical Procedures -- economics
statistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Statistics
Medical care, Cost of
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form Statistics
Form Electronic book
Author Hill, Brandon, editor
LC no. 2016000838
ISBN 9781634846370
1634846370