A stochastic frontier cost function is fitted to data for 219 New York hospitals (1991). Economic inefficiency is … estimated to be about 18 percent, comparable to published estimates for hospitals nationwide. Hospitals with over 300 beds are … control costs appears warranted. Rochester area hospitals, where a system of monopsony reimbursement exists, are more …

hospitals provide two alternative treatments for a given diagnosis: a less intensive one (for example a medical treatment) and a …

hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight various effects on the shifts in the overall distribution of the costs … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …) the effect of the diffusion of technological progress within hospitals ; (iii) the effect of changes in patients …

hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight various effects on the shifts in the overall distribution of the costs … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …) the effect of the diffusion of technological progress within hospitals ; (iii) the effect of changes in patients …

hospitals over the period 1989–2006. The explanatory variables include the number of government hospitals per capita, doctors … hospitals may also be a factor. These factors and improved accessibility of health care facilities should be the focus of public …

between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 160 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives … without raising costs. Patients discharged from hospitals located in markets where competition was more feasible were less …

competition between hospitals, as implemented by a prospective payment system, should lead to an improvement of care quality … available to potential patients. We estimate changes in hospital demand caused by ranking lists on a panel of hospitals located … in the Paris area, for several pathologies. We find a sizeable and significant demand shift towards hospitals belonging …

Abstract: Using a newly constructed dataset on German hospitals, which includes 24 process and outcome indicators of … clinical quality have increased significantly in 2008 compared to 2006. In addition, the hospitals underperforming in 2006 … appear to have increased their clinical quality relatively more than the other hospitals. When instead quality is measured by …

. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … hospitals over the period 2000-2004 and applying DEA, a non-parametric method. Individual efficiency is partly explained by the …