Approximately one in every thousand hospital patients dies because of preventable adverse events. Empirical findings …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

Hinblick auf ein leistungsfähiges und effektives Standortsystem der Krankenhaus- und Gesundheitsversorgung sind infrage …Current development trends in the restructuring of the hospital landscape, in particular the mergers of smaller … equal living conditions, and an efficient and effective system of hospital and health care locations. This requires spatial …

There are estimates that up to 30% of hospital costs are due to inefficiently coordinated hospital processes. As a … abandoned, because the normally constructed total models of hospital processes could hardly cope with the rapid technological … costs from micro-data up to the modular level. Thus a qualitative as well as quantitative discussion of hospital business …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a … shows that in a duopoly with regulated prices privatisation of the public hospital may increase overall welfare depending on … the difference of the hospitals' marginal costs and the weight of the additional public hospital's motive. …

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a … mixed duopolies, this paper shows that in this framework privatisation of the public hospital may increase overall welfare …. This holds if the public hospital is similar to the private hospital or less efficient and competition is low. The main …