FOREWORD
I would like to congratulate Professor Yasar Ozcan on producing this excellent, comprehensive textbook, Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management. The field has needed such a textbook for a very long time, and Professor Ozcan is eminently qualified in bringing it to us.
The last textbook in this area was written over twenty years ago. To all of us in health services research and management, we know that health care delivery today bears little resemblance to that era. So too, the use, types, and depth of quantitative methods and techniques have progressed greatly in this time period. Professor Ozcan brings us not only the latest and best methods and techniques, but also illustrates their uses through current cases and examples. ...