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Managed Care Konzepte und Lösungsansätze: Ein internationaler Vergleich aus schweizerischer Sicht
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
This paper applies the five modified standard criteria generally used in economics for assessing system performances to gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed...
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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?
Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009
In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...
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Using G/G/m-models for multi-server and mainframe capacity planning
Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2007
Results from classic queueing theory are shown to be useful for capacity planning of largescale multi-server systems. In the field of mainframe systems on-line monitoring and dynamic workload management care for the fulfilment of short-term performance goals with respect to service class...
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CapSys: A tool for macroscopic capacity planning of IBM mainframe systems
Tilev, Milen; Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2008
Capacity planning for large-scale systems like mainframe installations is typically based on rather coarse historical workload data. Hence, it is advisable to employ techniques and tools that use the same macroscopic (high-level) view of the overall system. We follow the classic approach known...
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Bewertung der Immobilien von Akutkrankenhäusern der Regelversorgung unter Beachtung des neuen DRG-orientierten Vergütungssystems für stationäre Leistungen
Jacob, Dieter; Uhlig, Tilo; Stuhr, Constanze - 2005
evaluation of clinical treatment, that the over capacity in hospital beds will be reduced in the face of increased competition …, and hospitals generally will have to be managed more economically. The valuation of a general acute hospital by a third …. Currently the property of a hospital still represents the basic collateral for a bank loan. The future will see in addition to …
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The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262263
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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Frohloff, Annika - 2007
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier analysis. The empirical results for the years...
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Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals
Herr, Annika; Schmitz, Hendrik; Augurzky, Boris - 2009
how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …
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Kränkelnde Krankenhäuser – Ursachen und Auswirkungen des Rückgangs der Krankenhausinvestitionen der Länder
Rösel, Felix - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 20 (2013) 5, pp. 3-15
zunehmende Patientenwanderung zwischen den ändern. Ein steigender Anteil von Patienten wählt zur Behandlung ein Krankenhaus …
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Measuring the relationship between costs and outcomes: The example of Acute Myocardial Infarction in German hospitals
Stargardt, Tom; Schreyögg, Jonas; Kondofersky, Ivan - 2012
In this paper, we propose a methodological approach to measure the relationship between hospital costs and health … ensure the available information is exploited. To demonstrate its application, data on mortality following hospital treatment … in hospital costs by 100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between …
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