technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context …, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market …, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals’ efficiency, however, has been neglected in …

also observed an increase in efficiency for the first three years after hospitals were converted to private non … gains of hospitals converted to for-profit status were significantly lower in the diagnosis-related groups (DRG) era than in … the pre-DRG era. Altogether, our results suggest that converting hospitals to private for-profit status may be an …

population, advancing expensive medical technology a shrinking labor. The pressure on hospitals is further increased by the …

model to schedule surgical blocks for each specialty into ORs and applied it to the hospitals in a British Columbia Health … resource optimization and wait list management, showing that without increasing post-surgical resources hospitals could handle …