Changes in the Costs of Treatment of Selected Illnesses, 1971-1981
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9101368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne A Scitovsky (Palo Alto Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1345-1357 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-198512000-00004 |
| PMID | 4087950 |
| OpenAlex | W2037814741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 1 |
This study, like two earlier studies by the author, examines the effects of changing medical technologies on medical care costs by comparing the costs of treatment of a number of common illnesses at two points in time, 1971 and 1981. While the earlier studies, covering the periods 1951-1964 and 1964-1971, showed that the main cost-raising changes had been a steep rise in the use of relatively low-cost ancillary services, such as laboratory tests and x-rays ("little-ticket" technologies), this study shows that in the period 1971-1981 the use of these technologies hardly changed but that several new and expensive technologies ("big-ticket" technologies) came into use, which raised medical care costs considerably
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 2010 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |