German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …

healthcare. In Spain, a decentralized country with a NHS funded with taxes and universal coverage, commissioning to for …-profit private hospitals the production of healthcare services to specific patients that are publicly insured is a traditional … 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 …

how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in … the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the …

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with … IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district … healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population …

show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade … extensively and the healthcare payment cost is substantial, or if there are many private hospitals, the patient dumping policy can …

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 …

Prospective payment arrangements are now the main form of hospital funding in most developed countries. An essential … requirements. In this article we describe the evolution and structure of Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) in England and the way … evolved to incentivise improvements in quality, and how prospective payment is being applied outside hospital settings. …

Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and … 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 …