Restrukturierungsansätze im Krankenhaus. … the existing structures in the health care sector in general and the hospital sector in particular. The environmental … the hospital sector and with it catalyze the need for economic action. Besides medical necessities, the economic paradigm …

In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i … hospitals are in the focus of many studies on health care costs and production. Since the main cost drivers -technological … to detect and reduce inefficiencies in this market. Therefore, hospital inefficiency is one main aspect in our research …

health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of …

-depth interview and focus group discussion were conducted which revealed that most of the participants’ experiences in supervising …

combined with hospital case costing of labour, materials, service and overhead costs for diagnostic testing and related …

Casemix-funding systems for hospital inpatient care require a set of resource weights which will not inadvertently … data from hospital management information systems (clinical costing systems) to estimate resource relativities for … inpatient hospital care used in Victoria's DRG-based payment system. The paper briefly describes international approaches to …

drawn about the relative cost performance of hospital departments. We estimate fixed effect cost models in which 3754 …