expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains. This article examines whether theoretical expectations of cost efficiency gains … can be empirically confirmed. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis of Switzerland provides a comparison of a … parameter frontier model, cost efficiency gains are found, particularly with a payment per patient case system. Payment systems …

Hospital emergency departments are often overused by patients that do not really need urgent care. These admissions are … one of the major factors contributing to hospital costs, which should not be allowed to compromise the response and … Portuguese urgency hospital departments is modeled in an autoregressive way. The spatial structure is accounted for by a set of …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. -- Efficiency ; hospitals ; stochastic frontier analysis …

Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …

Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …

-2010) panel of Italian data on hospital discharges to assess the determinants of inter-regional mobility and to distinguish … national-level) factors. Data on hospital discharges are merged with a set of variables on salient features of hospital care …; Vega and Elhorst, 2015). The model is estimated for total inter-regional patient flows and for specific types of hospital …