period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …

Hospitals are making big investments in various types of ICT, so it is important to investigate their effects on … innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … for European hospitals. Second, it analyzes the effects of various types of ICT on innovation and (ICT-enabled) economic …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …