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On the Efficiency of Public, Welfare and Private Hospitals in Germany Over Time - A Sectoral DEA-Study
Helmig, Bernd; Lapsley, Irvine - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049864
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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The relationship between quality and hospital case volume : an empirical examination with German data
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580155
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Stress on the ward : an empirical study of the nonlinear relationship between organizational workload and service quality
Kuntz, Ludwig; Mennicken, Roman; Scholtes, Stefan - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580291
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Selective-referral and unobserved patient heterogeneity : bias in the volume-outcome relationship
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2014
This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment … hospital. Our results indicate that after application of an IV regression of volume on outcome, volume significantly increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437485
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An Empirical Analysis of Medicare-Eligible Veterans' Demand for Outpatient Health Care Services
Lahiri, Kajal - 2010
Using data from the 1992 US National Survey of Veterans, we analyze Medicare-eligible veterans' use of VA and non-VA outpatient health care services. We apply a utility consistent, combined multinomial choice and count data model to identify factors that affect these veterans' outpatient health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717890
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The health effects of smoking bans : evidence from German hospitalization data
Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018
in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012395
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The health effects of smoking bans : evidence from German hospitalization data
Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018
in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880291
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Estimating survival times using Swiss hospital data
Kuhlmey, Florian; Minke, Matthias - 2018
We compare and evaluate two different approaches to estimate overall survival curvesfrom censored data of recurrent events: (1) standard survival time analysis, and (2) a multistate framework that explicitly estimates the mortality rate during censored periods. With both models, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869851
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The Health Effects of Smoking Bans : Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018
in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915315