An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in … establishment of the cost-quality relationship. The aim of this study is to identify cost drivers for vascular surgery in Danish … sources: The Vascular Register, the hospital cost database, and the National Patient Register with added DRG-information. The …

,000 surgical patients each year at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.The purpose of this article is to … projects have been implemented successfully in a hospital with high surgical complexity and indicate how health care … resource planning, optimizing the use of operating rooms and professionals' time and generating the best surgery combinations …

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …