with implementing universal health coverage. One of the primary problems is the financial stress of public hospitals due to … the mostly unfunded government mandate requiring these hospitals to meet the service needs of the enrolled population. …

observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period …

Purpose - The aim of the study is to assess healthcare system efficiency in both regular circumstances and during the … COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on key factors influencing efficiency, and offer health authorities insights into healthcare … Tobit regression method to identify factors that influenced countries' efficiency. Findings - We identified the healthcare …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

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 …