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 …

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 …

planning process in advance of those actions. The thesis presents a multiagent simulation tool, which describes surgical … workforce planning based on a model process from a particular German hospital. It combines both key performance indicators and … savings in planning cost by one order of magnitude, though, the applicability of direct results is limited. The simulation …

ambulance for the simulation of the outpatient care. For inpatient care the model considers the total-costs of the …. Results: The developed simulation model allows comparing health and cost outcomes of different integrated care concepts for … the treatment of heart failure patients. Additionally to the simulation of standard outpatient and inpatient care …