Cost efficiency in primary care contract
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Jaume Puig-Junoy; Vicente Ortún
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The principal aim of this paper is to estimate a stochastic frontier cost function and an inefficiency effects model in the analysis of the primary health‐care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180 providers in 1996 in Catalonia. The evidence from our sample doe