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. …

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

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 …

< .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 …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 …

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 … 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 …

the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the … hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration …

-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 …

characteristics and HRQoL among advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) patients by linking clinical data of a German CRC … registry to self-reported HRQoL measures from the EQ-5D-5L. Methods: The study sample included patients with advanced or … metastatic CRC currently recruited in the German Tumor Registry Colorectal Cancer. The EQ-5D-5L was administered once to patients …

Objective: Examine cost-driving factors of schizophrenia in Germany for patients prior- and post-switch from an oral … care. Methods: A single-armed, retrospective, non-interventional pre-post comparison study with 132 patients to compare the …%) compared to the hospitalization rates when treated with oral antipsychotics (55.1%). 18.2% of the patients reported to be …