last decade and have been criticized for distorting existing clinical priorities in scheduling hospital treatment. We … achieved the target by reducing the waiting times for long-waiting patients at the expense of short-waiting patients. We also …

relative efficiency of South African municipalities in primary health care and hospital care is different and whether South … South African municipalities across primary health care and hospital health care. The finding is that that the ranking of …

increase hospital efficiency when hospitals are heterogeneous, without reducing the quality of care. We consider an extension … (hospital management can be permanently inefficient) and transitory moral hazard. The latter is linked to the manager … supplies delivered to the hospital by outside firms. The use of a three-dimensional nested database makes it possible to …

Empirical evidence on economies of scale in healthcare is mostly based on the cost effects of hospital mergers. In …

terms of outcome quality measures experienced an increase in their share of patients in 2008, thus providing indirect … evidence that patients react to disclosed quality. Interestingly, the best performing hospitals in 2006 in terms of process … quality measures did not experience a significant change in their share of patients in 2008, thus suggesting that patients …

Permanente, Intermountain Health Care and The Mayo Clinics. However, due to large cost variability amongst patients (economic … of reducing provider risk than to increase the number of patients. Our simulations illustrate that introducing an … individual yearly cost ceiling of 20 000 US-dollars per patient reduces risk as much as increasing the number of patients from 5 …