primary aim of the study is to propose methods for comparing hospital outputs across countries that use different systems for … coding hospital activities. Additionally, this study seeks to identify best practices in coding and hospital performance … indicators, which could be of interest to countries and hospitals included in this analysis and beyond. It compares hospital …

hospital discharge rate, controlling for the quantity of cardiovascular medications consumed per person, the use of other … have been higher in 2004. We estimate that per capita expenditure on cardiovascular hospital stays would have been 70% ($89 … cardiovascular hospital stays is about 3.7 times as large as our estimate of the reduction in per capita expenditure for …

note on estimating a mean cost of hospital stay with incomplete information / Isabella Locatelli and Alfio Marazzi …