. The main novel feature is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be … of hospital services, instead of prices of inputs such as wages of medical personnel. The new methodology moves away from … the traditional input perspective, thereby relaxing the assumption that hospital productivity is the same across countries... …

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

changes in social stigma. Using data on all hospital visits in New Jersey from 2008-2019, we investigate two inflection points …

Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious …