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. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …

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 …

action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for … quality management system. In the following analysis, the hospitals are to be described and compared to one another in terms …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven … by increases in non-governmental hospitals. Growth responded most in richer cities, exacerbating existing inequalities in …