for inpatient care, as the number of days from doctor’s advice until hospital confinement. Given our dependent variables …

An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in … sources: The Vascular Register, the hospital cost database, and the National Patient Register with added DRG-information. The … models including complications and mortality as quality measures. At the hospital level of the analysis, we analyse …

care providers (-12%) towards specialist care (+10%), and hospital outpatient facilities (+5%). The magnitude of these …

German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …

in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed … hospital consultations by 9.5%, through boosting registrations by 4.8% and reducing appointment cancellations by 3.4%. The app …

in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …