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

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 public/private mix in Irish health care is nowhere more evident than in the acute hospital system where both public … and private patients can be treated in public hospitals by the same consultant. By undertaking new analyses of data from … the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme, this study investigates this public/private mix and its impact on utilisation of …

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 …

waiting lines in hospital facilities; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of the United States; and the …