provided by the NHS in Portugal. …

find not-for-profit ownership and a presence of a specialized center in a hospital to be detrimental to hospital …. Generally, hospital performance gets worse in period 2009-2010 because additional revenues received in form of user charges …

sector infrastructure investments. Socio-economic, demographic and geophysical conditions, along with non-hospital healthcare … distance burden amounts to nearly 80% of the respective, commune-specific ‘best practice' hospital distance estimates …

policies implemented in recent years in Italy have affected hospital activity. Our contribution is mainly empirical as we focus … our attention on the impact that policies like hospital mergers and regional bailout plans had on inefficiency. We use a … and inefficiency effects. Results show that hospital inefficiency has changed over time and that part of this change could …

the relevance of slacks for the analysis. In including quality data into the study, another essential feature for hospital …

hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and … efficient than publicly owned hospitals. The hospital rankings based on estimated efficiency scores turn out to be negatively …

health system in order to provide hospital directors and administrators and health service policy-makers with information to … cholera treatment costs were calculated using hospital files and statistics and an in-hospital surveillance system of the … excessive. The most important contributor was excess recurrent costs (90%), including extended hospital stays, disproportionate …

latent variable model that is based on the presumption of a single, but unobservable, hospital-specific quality factor shared … properties satisfied by hospital scores at optimality. Using data we apply our approach to score and rank nearly every hospital …