observations that commercialization increases: a hospital's profitability, its employment productivity, its capital investment … tools to deal with financial problems. The article presents an example of the commercialized hospital in Łańcut. We make the …

German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …

Deutschland leistet sich nach internationalen Maßstäben überdimensionierte Bettenkapazitäten, die sich auf zu viele und …By international standards, Germany maintains oversized bed capacities that are spread across too many hospitals that … remuneration of hospital services. The articles shows that the goals of the reform cannot be achieved in the proposed way. …

its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff calculation at national level. First, the paper reviews and … assesses the three steps in the G-DRG resource allocation scheme at hospital level: (1) the groundwork; (2) cost … calculation: (1) plausibility checks; (2) inlier calculation; and (3) the “one hospital” approach. The assessment is based on the …