-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. …

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

context of hospital survival rates. We further discuss the implications for hospital capacity planning and the wider … implications for service operations management. -- Service quality ; service outcomes ; organizational workload ; hospital capacity …