Ralph W. Muller

University of Pennsylvania Health System — United States

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

7h-index699citations18works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Healthcare Policy and Management(11), Primary Care and Health Outcomes(5), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life(3), Global Health Care Issues(2), Healthcare cost, quality, practices(2)

Publications18 total

Evidence on Provider Payment and Medical Care Management
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022
Commentary to Accompany Chapter 5
Oxford University Press eBooks·2016
Asymmetric Thinking about Return on Investment
New England Journal of Medicine·2016· 10 cited
Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care
Annals of Internal Medicine·2015· 209 cited
Commentary on “Is the System Really the Solution? Operating Costs in Hospital Systems”
Medical Care Research and Review·2015· 2 cited
Is the System Really the Solution? Operating Costs in Hospital Systems
Medical Care Research and Review·2015· 50 cited
Conflicts and Compromises in Not Hiring Smokers
New England Journal of Medicine·2013· 33 cited
Automated Hovering in Health Care — Watching Over the 5000 Hours
New England Journal of Medicine·2012· 209 cited
The Changing Configuration of Hospital Systems: Centralization, Federalization, or Fragmentation?
Advances in health care management·2012· 12 cited
Hospital‐Physician Collaboration: Landscape of Economic Integration and Impact on Clinical Integration
Milbank Quarterly·2008· 163 citedOpen Access
PRACTITIONER APPLICATION: The Financial Performance of Integrated Health Organizations
Journal of Healthcare Management·2005
The Changing American Hospital in the Twenty-first Century 14th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2003
The Changing American Hospital in the Twenty-First Century
SSRN Electronic Journal·2003· 1 citedOpen Access
<i>The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada</i>. By Terry  Boychuk. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
American Journal of Sociology·2001
Does Economic Theory Justify Changing Policy That Works?
Health Affairs·2001· 1 cited
What Matters
Academic Medicine·2001· 4 cited
[Antibiotic prophylaxis: definition and documentation].
PubMed·1978· 5 cited
[Medical emergency service and medical ethical decision].
PubMed·1973

Frequent Co-authors

Kevin G. Volpp(3), David A. Asch(3), Lawton R. Burns(3), Jeffrey S. McCullough(2), Douglas R. Wholey(2), Gregory Kruse(2), Peter Kralovec(2), Mark V. Pauly(2), Ezekiel Emanuel(1), Peter A. Ubel(1), Judd B. Kessler(1), Gregg S. Meyer(1), Amol S. Navathe(1), Pankaj H. Patel(1), Robert M. Pearl(1), Meredith B. Rosenthal(1), Lee Sacks(1), Aditi P. Sen(1), Paul Sherman(1), M Dürig(1)