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Mandatory Quality Disclosure and Quality Supply : Evidence from German Hospitals
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Ozbugday, Fatih Cemil - 2012
Using a newly constructed dataset on German hospitals, which includes 24 process and outcome indicators of clinical quality, we test whether quality has increased in various clinical areas since the introduction of mandatory quality reports and the online publication of part of the collected...
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625877
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630956
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The relationship between nurse staffing levels and objective and subjective quality of care : a panel data approach for Germany
Augurzky, Boris; Bünnings, Christian; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
In this study we investigate the relationship between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality in Germany. We use … measures. To analyze the association between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality indicators empirically, we estimate … linear regression models and control for a wide range of hospital and patient characteristics that might bias the results. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764538
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Who will be the mediator? : local politics and hospital closures in Germany
Sriubaite, Ieva - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of hospital closures in Germany in the context of emergency medical care for patients … the impact of hospital closures between 2006 and 2012 on geographical healthcare access and several patient clinical … outcomes. To minimize bias from the potential endogeneity between the hospital quality and market structure, I employ an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433624
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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 …
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Does the quality of hospital treatment vary by days of the week?
Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Wasem, Jürgen - 2009
variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in-hospital … probability to be readmitted as emergency cases. -- Hospital quality ; weekend effect ; inpatient outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841585
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Volume-outcome relationship and minimum volume regulations in the German hospital sector : evidence from nationwide administrative hospital data for the years 2005–2007
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman; Reifferscheid, … - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 25, pp. 1-14
German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942843
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Volume-outcome relationship and minimum volume regulations in the German hospital sector : evidence from nationwide administrative hospital data for the year 2005-2007
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman; Reifferscheid, … - 2017
hospital sector. We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital population for the … years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality. We measure … hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using simulation techniques …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764504
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Demand, Selection and Patient Outcomes in German Acute Care Hospitals
Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2009
In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212021