Purpose- Hospital length of stay (LOS) does not only signal the seriousness of illness, it can also lead to … catastrophic cost for patients or households. This paper examines the factors that determine LOS in Nigeria; a country where more …,150 people who reported one or more overnight stays in a hospital, comes from the two waves of the Nigerian General Household …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

hospital using linked administrative health and social care data in Scotland. We make various assumptions about the probability … results show that telecare users are expected to spend a shorter time in hospital than non-users, holding other factors … length of stay in hospital, on average, than their counterparts, all things equal. Future research will involve conducting a …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … does not improve his patients’ health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … does not improve his patients’ health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period …

hospital using linked administrative health and social care data in Scotland. We make various assumptions about the probability … results show that telecare users are expected to spend a shorter time in hospital than non-users, holding other factors … length of stay in hospital, on average, than their counterparts, all things equal. Future research will involve conducting a …

We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

with hospital care services, whose payment is done on the basis of the Diagnosis-related group (DRG), we hope the …