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Researchers examining the performance of health care organization have not made serious attempts to examine how time-invariant and time-varying factors affect efficiency and financial viability, by using longitudinal analysis. Analyses of cross-sectional hospital performance data have shed little light on the explanatory power of the predictor variables. This chapter introduces a multivariate modeling strategy analyzing multi-wave data collected from a panel of health care organizations, particularly hospitals.
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Wan, T.T.H. (2002). Growth Curve Modeling with Longitudinal Data. In: Evidence-Based Health Care Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0795-6_12
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