The introduction of hospital reimbursement based on diagnosis related groups (DRG) in 2004 has been a conspicuous … attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … of negative spatial spillovers among German hospital performance can be diagnosed. This result is in line with a rise of …

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth allows for additional health care services under restricted resources. We … examine whether hospital policy can stimulate hospital TFP growth. We exploit variation across German federal states in the … period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and … efficient than publicly owned hospitals. The hospital rankings based on estimated efficiency scores turn out to be negatively …

Here; data on the actual hospital infrastructure in Germany are summarised and presented. This does not allow any … is that Germany has a high hospital bed density in comparison to other countries, also in the field of intensive and …

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 …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … performed in health care systems in Germany and Turkey. Several studies on the hospital quality of both countries pointed out to …