Street, AndrewScheller-Kreinsen, DavidGeissler, AlexanderBusse, ReinhardBusse, ReinhardGaskins, Matthew2015-11-202010-06-012010-06-012010-06-01978-3-7983-2124-31869-6287urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus-26613https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/2767http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-2470Empirical studies of variation in hospital costs fall into two camps: those based on analysis of the costs of individual patients and those – the vast majority – that analyse costs reported at the hospital level. In this review, we consider how patient-level and hospital-level data are related and outline approaches to analyzing them. The second part of the review considers general specification choices and methods of efficiency analysis. Moreover, we specify a model to be used in the empirical analyses of the EuroDRG project.en330 WirtschaftDEAEuropaKrankenhauskostenfunktionenPatientenebene AnalysenSFADEAEuropeHospital cost functionsPatient-level analysisSFABook