) 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 …

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 …

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. …

benchmark the unit costs of hospital services in public providers in Jordan to provide insights into the outlook for public … health care costs. Methods: The unit costs of hospital services per admission, inpatient days, outpatient visits, emergency …

obesity on annual inpatient healthcare costs in the UK using linked data from the UK Biobank and Hospital Episode Statistics …

. The study used two datasets: a) household survey for data on hospital utilisation, OOPE, cash incentives received by …

2 (SARS-CoV-2) admitted to a Spanish hospital between February 26 and May 21, 2020. Direct medical costs from the … perspective of the hospital were calculated. We analyzed diagnostic tests, drugs, medical and nursing care, and isolation ward and …-CoV-2, and patients who tested negative. Results: The impact on the hospital's budget for the 3 months was calculated at €15 …

Background: Economic research on hospital palliative care faces major challenges. Observational studies using routine … (N = 2674) based on diagnosis of a terminal illness and high risk of hospital mortality. We modelled our treatment …