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...

Background: Based upon the assumption that GPs utility as a function of income and leisure it has been suggested that GPs serving complex patients will face lower utility in mixed remuneration systems. The income effect in this model is ambiguous but is has been shown, with Danish data, that...

The majority of public hospitals in Scandinavia are reimbursed through a mixture of two prospective reimbursement schemes, block grants (a fixed amount independent of the number of patients treated) and activity-based financing (ABF). This article contributes theoretically to the existing...

Much research in health economics revolves around the analysis of hierarchically structured data. For instance, combining characteristics of patients with information pertaining to the general practice (GP) clinic providing treatment is called for in order to investigate important features of...

In Denmark GP services are free at the point of use. A looming conflict between GPs and the payor, the Danish Regions, has raised the possibility of copayment during a possible upcoming conflict. Danish empirical evidence on the demand effect of copayment is largely nonexisting. However, from...

When implementing a pay for performance (P4P) scheme, designers must decide to whom the nancial incentive for performance should be directed. This paper compares department level hospital reported performance on the Danish Case Management Scheme at hospitals that did and did not redistribute...

There are three levels in this paper: A search for economic theories about presenteeism, a search for appropriate econometric approaches, and finally empirical results based on a unique Danish cross sectional data set. There are two economic approaches to presenteeism: 1. Productivity losses and...

Objectives with the health care system often include equity considerations. One objective is equal treatment for equal need. In this paper we explain the sources of income-related inequality in utilization of health care services in Funen County, Denmark, by linking survey data to register based...

De udarbejdede Processtyrede Patientforløb tager deres udgangspunkt i det forventede patientflow i OUH-FAM, men de underliggende principper for Processtyrede Patientforløb er generelt gyldige, så principperne kan anvendes i alle situationer hvor det er formålet at kunne beskrive det enkelte...

Dette casestudy fremlægger resultaterne af en undersøgelse af muligheden for at effektivisere OPgangen på Regionshospitalet X-købing, der er det primære akuthospital i Hospitalsenheden Z. OP-gangen er en organisatorisk og driftsmæssig kompliceret enhed. Direkte involveret er Kirurgisk...