emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

derived from the hospital's own internal contracting process which generates retention costs of medical personnel and costs of … since the initial cost was considered greater than treating the patient outside hospital facilities. These variables should …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in … sources: The Vascular Register, the hospital cost database, and the National Patient Register with added DRG-information. The … models including complications and mortality as quality measures. At the hospital level of the analysis, we analyse …

costing system and magement accounting practices and examines how these two constructs impact on hospital performance. The … data was collected using a questionnaire survey carried out among chief accountants and hospital managers in Polish and … hospital performance depends on the quality of cost calculation, as well as on management accounting practices. On the other …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

: restructuring hospital financing and overhauling emergency services. While past efforts to reform emergency care have failed, the … complexity of Germany's decentralised system and competing interests among federal, state and local governments, and service … providers hinder progress. The Minister's plan includes integrated emergency centres and improved coordination between hospital …