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management accounting in public hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – To test the research hypotheses, data were collected … from Hong Kong public hospitals using a questionnaire survey. The research attempts to identify how the interactions of … in hospitals in terms of information quality of management accounting systems (MASIQ). Findings – The results show that …
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) techniques in hospitals under competitive market environments. The paper analyses the dissemination of SMA techniques in … various groups of hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – The paper collected empirical data in a nationwide survey of German … general hospitals. Analyses are based on questionnaires from 116 hospitals. Findings – Results show that strategies are …
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The pursuit of cost efficiency in the British National Health Service has resulted in increased emphasis on devolved financial accountability and the introduction of an internal market. With the aid of a case study, this paper examines alternative forms of governance and proposes that aspects of...
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A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …
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Hospitals and healthcare organizations are facing an increasingly competitive business environment which demands the … hospitals and healthcare organizations in recent years since only a small proportion of these organizations have reaped the … investment evaluation and benefits realization practices and processes of Australian and Taiwanese hospitals that have outsourced …
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We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …
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period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …
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hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …
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Large, urban tertiary care hospitals often acquire outlying community hospitals. One possible motivation is to increase … profitable procedures. However, we find no evidence that hospitals selectively avoided referrals of patients with severe …
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