countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) hat im Rahmen einer Ausschreibung das Konsortium «DigitalRadar Krankenhaus» beauftragt diese … Instruments zur Evaluierung des Reifegrades der Krankenhäuser hinsichtlich der Digitalisierung - DigitalRadar Krankenhaus - dient …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …