Objective: The purpose is to assess whether the joint evaluation of costs and quality affects the ranking of hospital departments relative to performance based on cost performance alone.<p> Methods: Using patient level data, in which 3,754 patients across six vascular departments are pooled we...</p>

We explore what effect controlling for various patient characteristics beyond a case-mix index (DRG) has on inferences drawn about the relative cost performance of hospital departments. We estimate fixed effect cost models in which 3754 patients are clustered within six Danish vascular...

We explore what effect controlling for various patient characteristics beyond a case-mix index (DRG) has on inferences drawn about the relative cost performance of hospital departments. We estimate fixed effect cost models in which 3754 patients are clustered within six Danish vascular...

Objective: To estimate the costs to the public health care system of couples in medically assisted reproduction. <p> Material and methods: Longitudinal cohort study among n=739 infertile couples who started a fertility treatment at one of four selected public fertility clinics in Denmark during the...</p>

This paper estimates the price sensitivity of the quality of acute stroke care using a regression kink design. When Danish hospitals reach a production target, marginal taris for treating acute stroke patients falls by 50%{100%. This reimbursement scheme allow us to identify local average...

When introducing Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) tariffs as the basis for paying hospitals in Europe, one of the major problems was to find a balancing point between the aim of increasing hospital activity and the need to control global expenditures on hospital care. Consequently, in several...

Health outcomes are often described according to two dimensions: quality of life and quantity of life. We analyze the measurement of inequality of health distributions referring to these two dimensions. Our analysis relies on a novel treatment of the quality-of-life dimension, which might not...

In several countries, public healthcare providers purchase services from private providers to shorten waiting times. Some private providers in turn combine public service with practice in their own facilities. According to the existing literature, they are viewed as cream-skimming profitable...