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This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
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spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …
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decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …
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im Gesundheitswesen, die dort in zahlreichen Projekten erfolgreich umgesetzt wurde. Um Empfehlungen für Deutschland … abzuleiten, werden die Rahmenbedingungen in Frankreich, Großbritannien und Deutschland verglichen. Mit Hilfe der … Auftragnehmer während der verschiedenen Phasen des Projektes sind effiziente PPP-Krankenhausprojekte auch in Deutschland möglich …
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the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition …
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the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5 ….38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are …
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We explore whether NHS hospitals managed their earnings upward before applying for Foundation Trust (FT) status, a scheme that allowed them greater financial freedom and management autonomy, in order to present an overly positive picture and increase their chances for a successful application....
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A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...
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This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006 … differentially exposed to private hospital entry, instrumenting hospital entry with the location of private hospitals in the pre …-reform period. We find private hospital entry led to a 12% increase in the overall number of annual publicly funded admissions, and …
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