increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the … erbringen. Wir testen diese Vorhersage auf Grundlage einer Reform der Krankenhausfinanzierung in Deutschland. Das Besondere an …

prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications … and 2010 based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. We find that changes in reimbursement prices do not affect …, chirurgischen Komplikationen, Prozessqualität und Patientenzufriedenheit. Auf Grundlage einer Reform der Krankenhausfinanzierung in …

of hospital. These studies use either objective quality indicators based on quantitative figures, or if subjective … reputation scores are used, scores based on the opinion of hospital market insiders. We contribute to the current debate by using … a subjective reputation score resorting to patient perceptions and examine its impact on the choice of hospital of …

how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …

hospital sector. 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 simulation techniques …