obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital delivery on various mortality rates … parents-level omitted variable estimation bias. Ceteris paribus, access to family welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery …

Hospital strikes in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS) are becoming increasingly frequent. This paper … - DTT) on patients’ outcomes and hospital activity. Patient-level data, comprising all NHS hospital admissions in mainland … of stay. Data suggests that hospital operations are partially disrupted during strikes, with sharp reductions in surgical …

caregivers of patients with all types of solid cancer, in all phases of the disease, in a Spanish hospital. The scale was …

global budgeting. In this paper we investigate whether the different reimbursement systems adopted in the Italian hospital … different financing mechanisms on hospital’s performance. To this purpose, we carry out a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

Hospital prices are almost completely irrational. They bear no relationship to the cost of providing the services, they … are opaque, and the prices vary wildly among hospitals and payers. The craziness of hospital pricing was laid bare when … the federal government released data on hospital charges in May 2013. In response to public shock and outrage, hospitals …

This study investigates whether the hospital reform has led to a situation where the development of hospital … variables in order to separate the effect of the hospital reform from the effects of other structural, financial and … organizational variables. There are several challenges when comparing hospital efficiency across countries, most notably establishing …

health care policy-makers' preferences) and the consideration of exogenous variables outside the control of hospital … management (and linked to past policy-makers' decisions) can affect the measurement of hospital technical efficiency using the … order to consider policy-maker objectives) reduces average hospital efficiency. Moreover, we show that, in many cases, low …