Dieser Sammelband zeichnet durch zahlreiche Beispiele aus dem Unternehmensalltag ein Bild davon, vor welchen Herausforderungen Einrichtungen im Gesundheitswesen im Rahmen des Dienstleistungscontrolling stehen und wie sie diesen mit Ideen und wertvollen Handlungsempfehlungen begegnen. Untermauert...

Competition plays an ambiguous role in nursing home markets where public and private payers coexist. Using U.S. nursing home data with a wide range of market structures, we find a U-shaped relationship between competition and service quality when nursing homes serve a mix of public and private...

Over the past ten years, many healthcare organizations have made significant investments in automating their clinical operations, mostly through the introduction of advanced information systems. Yet the impact of these investments on staffing is still not well understood. In this paper, we study...

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 does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes...