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A review of pay-for-performance programs in the inpatient sector in OECD countries
Milstein, Ricarda; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2015
Background: Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals. However, little is known about whether such...
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Pricing and competition in specialist medical services : an overview for South Africa
Kumar, Ankit; De Lagasnerie, Grégoire; Maiorano, Frederica - 2014
Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious …
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Developing international benchmarks of patient safety culture in hospital care : Findings of the OECD patient safety culture pilot data collection and considerations for future wor...
de Bienassis, Katherine - 2022
information is transferred across hospital units and during shift changes. Just two-in-five surveyed health workers in OECD …
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Tackling Excessive Waiting Times for Elective Surgery : A Comparison of Policies in Twelve OECD Countries
Hurst, Jeremy - 2003
Waiting times for elective (non-urgent) surgery are a main health policy concern in approximately half of OECD countries. Mean waiting times for elective surgical procedures are above three months in several countries and maximum waiting times can stretch into years. They generate...
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Productive efficiency of wine grape producers in the North of Portugal
Santos, Micael; Rodríguez, Xosé Antón; Marta-Costa, Ana - In: Wine Economics and Policy 10 (2021) 2, pp. 3-14
Portugal is a country traditionally dedicated to viticulture and characterized by the production of wines of high …, however in recent years Portugal have lost market share in these fields. This situation can be related to the level of … three regions of the North of Portugal (Minho, Douro and Trás-os-Montes), which represents more than 40% of the Portuguese …
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Did the corporatization of Portuguese hospitals significantly change their productivity?
Ferreira, Diogo; Marques, Rui Cunha - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 3, pp. 289-303
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Health system efficiency in OECD countries : dynamic network DEA approach
Gavurova, Beata; Kocisova, Kristina; Sopko, Jakub - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25
Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context of seeking resources to ensure the sustainability of 'countries' health and social systems and addressing various crises in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and...
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Relative Efficiency of Health Provision : A DEA Approach with Non-Discretionary Inputs
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2006
We estimate a semi-parametric model of health production process using a two-stage approach for OECD countries. By regressing data envelopment analysis output efficiency scores on non-discretionary variables, both using Tobit analysis and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show that...
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Wie steht es um Deutschlands Krankenhausinfrastruktur? : Überblick und internationaler Vergleich
Kochskämper, Susanna - 2020
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 …
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Reassessing private practice in public hospitals in Ireland : an overview of OECD experiences
Mueller, Michael; Socha-Dietrich, Karolina - 2020
In 2017, the “Sláintecare Report” proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the Irish health system including a reform proposal to phase out private practice in public hospitals to end the unequal treatment of public and private patients – private patients typically have quicker access to care...
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