) neonates admitted to a teaching and referral hospital. This cost estimation project can help health policy makers and planners … Hospital, Tehran-Iran in the period of March 2012 to September 2013. This teaching and referral hospital had 15 NICU beds as …) died during hospital stay. Beside hospitalization, the major part of expenses was related to medication and medical …

structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data … for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating the need for differentiating the product market and at investigating … contribute to the scarce empirical evidence on the structure of the German hospital market. We find that the German hospital …

its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff calculation at national level. First, the paper reviews and … assesses the three steps in the G-DRG resource allocation scheme at hospital level: (1) the groundwork; (2) cost … calculation: (1) plausibility checks; (2) inlier calculation; and (3) the “one hospital” approach. The assessment is based on the …

contextual/environmental variables on hospital inefficiencies. Methods: A two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is … the hospital-level efficiency scores are first estimated using DEA. In the second stage, the estimated DEA efficiency …,806 hospital discharges, or by transferring the excess 2.478 doctors (2.85%), 9.914 nurses and midwives (0.98%), 9.774 laboratory …

Prospective payment arrangements are now the main form of hospital funding in most developed countries. An essential … evolved to incentivise improvements in quality, and how prospective payment is being applied outside hospital settings. …

the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the … how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …

This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of … an increasing spatial concentration of hospital services results in a decreased cost of obtaining intermediate medical … the hospital service industry attracts specialized medical labs, which in turn help to reduce the cost of producing …