diseases have considerable public health significance, but yet few professionals are specialised in their management causing a … disability and sick certificates represent a high financial burden that could be reinvested in a correct management. Policy …

physicians to recoup their income by substituting a more expensive treatment for a less expensive treatment. This study takes …

sector by analyzing whether the current payment mechanism of separately remunerating salaried hospital physicians for … treating supplementary insured patients in public hospitals, in combination with the public hospital physician’s possibility of … of the institutional design of the Austrian public hospital sector, legal provisions and directives have been identified …

centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of an RAS system infuenced patients' hospital choice. Methods To analyze RPE … treatment centralization, we use (bi-) annual hospital data from 2006 to 2018 for all German hospitals in a panel-data fxed … efect model. For investigating RAS systems' infuence on patients' hospital choice, we use patient level data of 4614 RPE …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

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 …

model. Through a comparison of public and PPP hospital performance, cost and quality indicators, the efficiency of the PPP … experience in five hospitals is evaluated to identify the influence of private management in the results. Regarding the …