hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in physicians' adherence to hospital choices. The spillover effects create cost …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …

quality management system. In the following analysis, the hospitals are to be described and compared to one another in terms … action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for … example, setting up new organisation structures, professionalising management competence or also developing a comprehensive …

management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …