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 …

game theory, behavioral economics, behavioral game theory, evolutionary game theory, neuroeconomics, experimental economics … and multiple equilibrium, they provide new oportunities to the theory of economics. In this study, firstly, Austrian …

Berücksichtigung des neuen DRGEntgeltsystems auf Arbeitsbedingungen und Versorgungsqualität im Krankenhaus. Zugrunde liegen Fallstudien … Arbeitsbedingungen der Beschäftigten im Krankenhaus und die Qualität der Patientenversorgung hat, wird im Projekt Wandel von Medizin und … what extent changes in hospital funding have invoked shifts in attitude and behaviour on the part of service providers in …

diagnosis-related groups. In Germany, diagnosis-related groups function as sole pricing, billing and budgeting system and almost … recent econometric advances, we analyze hospital activity and efficiency. We find that the reform increased hospital activity …

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 …

-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 … significant positive association between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant negative … impact on hospital efficiency. …