< .001) but not more likely to be influenced when referring patients into hospitals (OR 1.73; 95% CI 0.72–4.12, p > .05). On …

classification system with well-defined constructs for patients’ and persons’ self-reports on health and healthcare. A literature …, experiences, and satisfaction – have been described in this article. Even though the value of patients’ and persons’ perspectives … researchers, clinicians, patients, and the general population. …

, as well as the various needs, preferences and resources of patients and their families. Methods: Health systems financed …, finally, actual forecasts of the number of potential future patients. Results: GST can be used to make predictions about the … GM (1,1) in predicting the number of patients of palliative care facilities in Poland. The analysis covers the data from …

centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of an RAS system infuenced patients' hospital choice. Methods To analyze RPE … efect model. For investigating RAS systems' infuence on patients' hospital choice, we use patient level data of 4614 RPE … patients treated in 2015. Employing a random utility choice model, we estimate the infuence of RAS as well as specialization …

innovative policies, which improve operational efciency and achieve the best value for money for patients. This study aims to … develop a Decision Support Tool (DST) that assesses the impact of implementing new DVT patients’ management and care policies … was validated and verifed by various stakeholders and two policies, namely shifting more patients to community services …

patients to migrate towards different health care organizations to avail treatments. The efficiency and productivity issues are … strong correlation is found among variables in our model and some relevant dependence is tested between patients’ mobility …

population of diabetes patients in 2011 (N = 318,729) were applied. Patients’ unique personal identification number enabled … contributing factors was applied. Differences in diabetes patients’ health care utilization patterns suggest that use of services … differ among patients of lower and higher SES, despite the Danish universal health care system. Especially, out …

show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals’ rent extraction due to low-severity patients) and the shift … in the level of cost reduction efforts for high-severity patients. We also clarify the welfare-improving conditions by …

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with … healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population … of 21,771 individuals, including 9282 patients with Crohn disease and 12,489 patients with ulcerative colitis. Patients …