The softness of medical production and implications for specifying hospital outputs
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Vol. 20 (3) , 281-294
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2681(93)90026-l
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