Objective: To evaluate the impact of different dissemination channels on the awareness and usage of hospital …: Overall, 68% of respondents recalled hospital performance reports and 21% used them for referral decisions. Physicians from … < .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. …

investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

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' hospital choice is insignifcant or negligible. Conclusions In conclusion, centralization is partly driven by (very …

-profit private hospitals the production of healthcare services to specific patients that are publicly insured is a traditional … treat patients on public tariffs. These revenues represent 26% of the total revenues of private for-profit hospitals. The … varies depending on hospital size and type (hospital specialization), the advantage being more relevant for general hospitals …

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of … model which allows the numbers of ambulatory and hospital cases to be mutually interdependent, we examine the connection … between ambulatory and hospital specialist care separately for ten medical specialties. The results show that the …

population. We adopted a national healthcare perspective to estimate the cost of cancer for hospital episodes, ED presentations …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a … patients' verbal critical attitude (which indicates patients' intention to take further steps), while keeping constant …

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 …