The present study considers the Italian healthcare system, investigating the aspects that might affect the efficiency of Italian hospitals. The authors analyze what influences a specific definition of efficiency, which is calculated maximizing healthcare production but minimizing potential...

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it provides a contribution to the debate on judicial efficiency by conducting an applied research on the Italian tax judiciary thanks to a database covering the activities of the Italian tax courts over a 3-year period (2009–2011). On the...

The paper sets out to analyze the efficiency of regional health care systems based on the patients’ perception of the quality of the services provided. For the purpose of this study, efficiency is measured as interregional mobility, i.e., the number of a region’s residents that use the...

This paper proposes a decision-making process based on trust. Imagining the relationship between patients and physicians, based on the trust that the former put in the latter, which is the effect of experimental activities on the researcher’s (and/or medical center’s) reputation? Is it...

Public health institutions are involved in human experimentations, which is a specific phase of pharmaceutical industry’s production process. These medical centers collect clinical evidence about experimental treatments and, at the same time, they have to guarantee patients’ safety through...

Il presente studio espone un’analisi di costo-efficacia circa l’implementazione di uno strumento di controllo delle infezioni respiratorie nei pazienti sottoposti a ventilazione meccanica in Terapia Intensiva, definita Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP). L’analisi empirica presentata...

What might be the relation between clinical research and efficiency of medical care suppliers? Is the hypothesis of a positive relation consistent? Considering efficiency as the supplier’s ability to maximize the number of patients hospitalized in a mobility process among regions (i.e....