idea that hospitals can be specialized in terms of professional expertise or technical equipment within a given diagnosis … frontier approach on randomly selected data from the annual reports of 1,239 acute care German hospitals for the years 2000 …

the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to increase efficiency of hospitals. The objective of …-profit hospitals. The results of the studies are quite mixed. However, in line with the evidence found in studies from other countries … policy makers as private for-profit hospitals are often perceived the most efficient ownership type by the public. …

also observed an increase in efficiency for the first three years after hospitals were converted to private non … gains of hospitals converted to for-profit status were significantly lower in the diagnosis-related groups (DRG) era than in … the pre-DRG era. Altogether, our results suggest that converting hospitals to private for-profit status may be an …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context …, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market …, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals’ efficiency, however, has been neglected in …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …