patients' length of stay in hospital and decrease the incidence of adverse events from surgery, but their effects significantly … Service (NHS). To identify the effects of robotic surgery on patient outcomes, I exploit quasi-random variation in the …

Struktur- und Leistungsdaten gemäß § 21 Abs. 1 KHEntgG des Instituts für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus (InEK) für die vollen …

responsiveness to changes in demand for hospital services in Germany between 1996 and 2006. With respect to the speed of adaptation … owned hospitals. Thus, the study finds evidence that to some extent the privatization of the hospital sector may be an …

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 …