are age and number of diagnoses. Under the current NHS fixed price payment system, there are incentives for hospitals to …

We develop a new methodology for measuring management practices in hospitals, and use this in 182 interviews of … physicians and managers in public and private hospitals (covering 61% of English acute trusts). We find our management measure is … operational and financial outcomes. Management in publicly owned hospitals (the National Health Service) compares poorly with …

hospitals provide two alternative treatments for a given diagnosis: a less intensive one (for example a medical treatment) and a …