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Alanko, A., Kiviniemi, S., Rotonen, M., Linna, M., Tolppanen, E-M. Measuring hospital effectiveness and efficiency: Finnish experience (abstract). WHO Workshop on evaluating hospital effectiveness and effiency. Milan, Sept 30 - Oct 2 1997.

Häkkinen, U., Keskimäki, I., Asikainen, K. Determinants and consequences of technological change in the care of acute myocardial infarction patients in Finland. In McCellan, M. Kessler, D (eds). Tecnological change in health care. A global analysis of heart attack: The case of hearth attack. University of Michigan Press. 2002 233-251.

Idänpään-Heikkilä, U., Häkkinen, U., Linna, M. Benchmarking hospitals - towards more efficient care - 2000. Quality Forum, Amsterdam, March 2000

Idänpään-Heikkilä, U., Häkkinen, U., Linna, M., Benchmarking health care episodes - towards more efficient care - 2000. ISQua meeting, Dublin, September 16-20, 2000

Järvelin, J., Linna, M. Häkkinen, U. The Hospital Bechmarking project: Productivity Information for Hospital Comparison. Dialogi 1B. 2003, ss. 26-28.

Linna, M. 2000. Health care financing reform and the productivity change in Finnish hospitals. 83-100

Linna, M. Benchmarking hospitals - How to identify sources of productivity. In Mertins, K., Kohl, H. (ed.) "Benchmarking '99 - Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit privater und öffentlicher Unternehmen, IPK Einverlag, Berlin 1999.

Linna, M. The impact of health care financing reform on the productivity change in Finnish hospitals./ System Analysis Laboratory Research Reports A79,1999.

Linna, M. Measuring hospital cost efficiency with panel data models (abstract). 18th Nordic Health Economists' Study Group Meeting, Helsinki 22-23 August 1997.



Linna, M., Häkkinen, U. Determinants of cost efficiency of Finnish hospitals: A comparison of DEA and SFA. System Analysis Laboratory Research Reports A78, 1999.

Linna, M., Häkkinen, U. Benchmarking hospitals: towards more efficient care. Dialogi in English 5B,1999.

Linna, M., Häkkinen, U. A Comparative application of econometric and DEA methods for assessing cost efficiency of Finnish hospitals. In Zweifel, P. (ed.): Health, the medical profession and regulation.Boston: - 1 Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, pp. 169-187


Linna, M., Häkkinen, U. A comparative application of DEA and translog methods: the productive efficiency of Finnish hospitals (abstract). Paper presented at the EURO XV - Informs XXXIV Joint International Meeting Barcelona (Spain) July 14-17, 1997.

Linna, M., Häkkinen, U., Magnusen, J. Comparing hospital efficiency in the Nordic countries: the case of Norway and Finland. The European Journal of Health economics:2:2002(supplement: Fourth European conference on health economics, book of abstracts),5.

Linna, M., Niemelä, J., Idänpää-Heikkilä, U., Häkkinen, U. Benchmarking the efficiency of hospital care. 17th PCS/E Conference. Case-mix: global views, local actions 10-13 October 2001 Bruges, Belgium.

Linna, M., Nordblad, A., Koivu, M. Technical and cost efficiency of oral health care provision in Finnish health centers. Social Science & Medicine 56/2 december, 2002.

Linna, M., Taimela, E., Apajasalo, M., Marttila, R. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for evaluting cost-utility of entacapone treatment for Parkinson's disease. Expert Rev. Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Res. 2(2): 89-96, 2002.

Mikkola, H., Häkkinen, U. The effects of case-based pricing on length of stay in common surgical procedures. Journal of health Services Research & Policy 2002:7:No2:98-103.

Mikkola, H., Keskimäki, I., Häkkinen, U. DRG-related prices applied in a public health care system - can Finland learn from Norway and Sweden. Health policy 59(2001) 37-51.

Mikkola, H., Linna, M. Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in Finnish Hospital Care. Revue Medicale de Assurance Maladie volume 33 no 1/2002.

Mikkola, H., Linna, M. DRGs in Finnish hospital care. Utilisation des DRGs dans le systeme hospitalier finlandais. Revue Médicale de l'Assurance Maladie 33:1; 37-43, 2002.

Mikkola, H. Sund, R., Linna, M., Häkkinen, U. Comparing the financial risk of bed-day and DRG based pricing types using parametric and simulation methods. Health Care Mangement Science 20033. 6:67-74.

Mikkola, H., Sund, R., Linna M, Häkkinen U. Comparing the financial risk of bed-day and DRG based pricing types using parametric and simulation methods. Has been accepted in Health Care Mangement Science.

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