Patients satisfaction is one of the most important factors in the present healthcare scenario whether it is regarding … of patients (50) was contacted for feedback on the facilities available in private rooms and their satisfaction. The …

-for-service, capitation) by so-called mixed payment schemes. Until now it is still an unresolved issue whether patients are really better off … patient types. Real patients gain a monetary benefit from subjects’ decisions. Our results reveal that overprovision observed …

There is an ongoing merger wave in the US hospital industry, but it remains an open question how hospital mergers … change, or fail to change, hospital behavior, performance, and outcomes. In this research, we open the “black box” of … outcomes. Our findings demonstrate the importance of hospital organizations and internal processes for merger research and …

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 – and reduce waiting times for public patients. This paper summarises … complement a ban of private practice to discontinue the unequal treatment of public and private patients. …

lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … the patient’s insurance status. Our conclusion is that, the reform did not repair the existing inequalities. The gap has …

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and … a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

information is transferred across hospital units and during shift changes. Just two-in-five surveyed health workers in OECD …

percentage of world’s decease and 6 percent world’s hospital beds is still in thirst of investments. The health care specifically …

Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health … hospital care using a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood method. Consistency of the PPML estimator is guaranteed under the null … of independence provided that the conditional mean is correctly specified. In our case we find that patients’ flows are …