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. …

hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the …-retained hospitals, an analysis of resource management is undertaken by examining the sources of funds, planning and budgeting cycle …, uses of funds, and monitoring set-up. The paper provides a critique of recent policies concerning hospitals as outlined in …

collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines. This paper looks at the different characteristics and … structures of private hospitals sector with regard to geographical distribution, services, financing, human resource, and other … delivery system in the country, other sections compare private hospitals vis-a-vis government-owned facilities. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …

costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

This work shows that by reducing asymmetric information in the operating areas of hospitals effectiveness can be … increased. A model is being developed which allows hospitals to assess whether an improved information situation is economically …