, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …

. This is the first time that such a broad study has been implemented. After adjusting for hospital characteristics …

1.4% per year. Furthermore, the differences in hospital efficiency can be attributed to both the regulatory changes and … hospital-specific characteristics. The user feesand autonomy measures were found to increase technical efficiency. Provincial …

pay the hospital bill. This situation of spread of new diseases due to environmental or socio-cultural degradation and the …

American Hospital Association, logistic regression models find that governmental ownership and a proxy variable for hospitals …

Prior research on the nonprice theory of hospital competition uses data prior to the mid-1980s when third party payers … were insensitive to hospital prices. Moreover, existing studies fail to test this theory for the different types of … hospital ownership. In response to these issues, this research employs a more current data set and examines this theory for …