prospective payments for hospitals. However, the financing of hospitals in some European countries is still based on the so …-called ‘global budget’ approach. Therefore, results of pharmacoeconomic studies involving hospitals financed by the ‘global … line with the national financing system of the hospitals involved. …

hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight various effects on the shifts in the overall distribution of the costs … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …) the effect of the diffusion of technological progress within hospitals ; (iii) the effect of changes in patients …

There is ongoing debate about the effect of ownership on hospital performance as regards efficiency and care quality … hospitals. In France, public and private hospitals do not only differ in their objectives. They are also subject to different … schemes until 2004: a global budget system was used for public hospitals, while private hospitals were paid on a fee …

-release measures applied under regulatory control are indeed effective short-term policies for promoting gas-to-gas competition. …