Unter Low Value Care werden Leistungen verstanden, die im individuellen Kontext (a) den Patienten wenig oder keinen Nutzen bringen, (b) potenziell Schaden verursachen, (c) unnötige Kosten verursachen und/oder (d) im Vergleich zur Anwendung alternativer Leistungen bzw. der Anwendung bei einer...

Hospital digitalization is to reduce costs, increase efficiency and productivity, and to improve quality of care. However, the literature lacks clarity on the meaning of "hospital digitalization," how to measure it, and what quality it might affect. We use data from the DigitalRadar project from...

Background Between 2008 and 2018, the share of robotic-assisted surgeries (RAS) for radical prostatectomies (RPEs) has increased from 3 to 46% in Germany. Firstly, we investigate if this difusion of RAS has contributed to RPE treatment centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of...

Only positive instances of various events, e.g., secondary diagnoses, are actively labeled in hospital administrative data. In line with this, several studies indicate underreporting of adverse events such as sepsis. The gold standard for relabeling of uncoded sepsis cases, medical record...

Public investment in hospitals in Germany has been insufficient for decades, making it difficultto finance digitization. Due to dual financing, hospitals could alternatively use their own profitsto pay for digitization efforts. This raises the question of whether there is a relationship...