We conducted this case study in order to test how health system performance could be compared using the existing national administrative health databases containing individual data. In this comparative analysis we used national data set from three countries, Estonia, Israel and Finland to follow...

This article focuses on describing the methodological challenges intrinsic in international comparative studies of hospital productivity and how these challenges have been addressed within the context of hospital comparisons in the Nordic countries. The hospital sectors in the Nordic countries...

Objectives Hospital efficiency has been the subject of numerous health economics studies, but there is little evidence on how the chosen output and casemix measures affect the efficiency results. The aim of this study is to examine the robustness of efficiency results due to these factors....

Objectives This paper explores the possibilities and limitations of obtaining and interpreting efficiency measurement on the level of the clinical department. We discuss the limitations of case-mix groupings such as the diagnosis related groups on this level.Methods Hospital costs are allocated...