Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue … that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … the nursing home quality from the first to the second evaluation. Both indicators comprising either the two outcome …

stimulating the development of this sector of the economy as well as the risk factors determining the quality of process changes …-oriented demands of a prosumer, there should be a coordinated and effective informational system, aimed at improving the quality …

physiotherapy instead of increasing productivity. The result is sensible because comparable quality information is not published to … health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance …

This paper analyses the decision to invest in quality by a hospital in an environment where doctors are devoted workers …, i.e. they care for specific aspects of the output they produce. We assume that quality is the result of both an …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

stimulating the development of this sector of the economy as well as the risk factors determining the quality of process changes …-oriented demands of a prosumer, there should be a coordinated and effective informational system, aimed at improving the quality …

Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue … that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … the nursing home quality from the first to the second evaluation. Both indicators comprising either the two outcome …

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

physiotherapy instead of increasing productivity. The result is sensible because comparable quality information is not published to … health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance …