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 …

care as well as on hospital costs. Hospital logistics contributes to the provision of care to patients by ensuring that all … researchers working in the hospital sector. We also discuss ways of raising the awareness of hospital managers and health care …

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 …

(ICHEC). Next, the research examines the impact of increases in temperature on use of emergency in-patient hospital care in …

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 …