offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low … staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We use the variation of patient admissions over time as a proxy … demand on outcomes is biased upwards. The reason is that when demand is high more patients with a higher unobservable frailty …

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 …

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on … hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the … size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in DOH …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … probability of discrimination of patients with different health insurances in regard to the access to medical services. Accounting …

neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …