Evidence-Based Health Care Management: Multivariate Modeling Approaches

List of Tables. List of Figures. About the Author. Foreword. Acknowledgments. 1. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Management of Health Care. 2. Causal Inference: Foundations for Health Care Managerial Decision-Making. 3. Research on Health Services Management: The Search for Structure. 4. Exploratory Analytical Modeling Methods. 5. Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling. 6. Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 7. Structural Equations for Directly Observed Variables: Recursive and Non-Recursive Models. 8. Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables. 9. Covariance Structure Models. 10. Multiple Group Comparison with Panel Data. 11. Multilevel Covariance Modeling. 12. Growth Curve Modeling with Longitudinal Data. 13. Epilogue. Index.