, emergency services, pharmacy services, physical appearance and layout of the hospital. This study concludes that the majority of … the patients are satisfied with the services provided by the in-patient department of Aga Khan Hospital. The strengths of … hospital must improve its billing system and should give discount on medicines as well …

provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …

investigations into hospital trust mergers over the period May 2011 to May 2012, to illuminate this ‘black box'. In particular, this … paper highlights the types of actions taken by hospital trusts facing competition that are likely to improve the quality of …

-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for Medicare enrollees are associated with increases in risk … for Medicare appears to reduce quality, and perhaps reduces welfare. The net effect of a given merger on hospital quality …

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

(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency …