This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a...

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process.We conduct a...

Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes...

Mit dem vorliegenden Pflegeheim Rating Report 2007 haben die ADMED GmbH, die HCB GmbH und das RWI Essen die Serie der Rating Reports komplettiert. Neben dem 2004 begonnen Krankenhaus Rating Report liegen auch die entsprechenden Gegenstücke für Reha-Kliniken und Pflegeheime vor. Ziel ist die...