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Transaction costs in healthcare : empirical evidence from Portuguese hospitals

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Transaction Cost Economics has been used in the healthcare context to discuss the make-or-buy dichotomy, focusing on minimizing production or governance costs, respectively. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that there are other relevant costs, which influence these decisions in health...

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Cost control in hospitals

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Process View and Cost Management of a New Surgery Technique in Hospital

Cinquini, Lino - 2009

Purpose ndash; The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potentiality in the application of process analysis and activity-based costing (ABC) in a healthcare setting to produce usable, useful and correct information on resource consumption and processes. The paper aims to analyze changes...

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Is quality costly? : patient and hospital cost drivers in vascular surgery

Kruse, Marie; Christensen, Jan Lien - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 22, pp. 1-13

establishment of the cost-quality relationship. The aim of this study is to identify cost drivers for vascular surgery in Danish … hospitals with a specific view to quality of the treatment: Is higher quality associated with increased costs, when all other … models including complications and mortality as quality measures. At the hospital level of the analysis, we analyse …

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