become popular in recent decades because of their ability to lower consumers' healthcare costs while increasing providers …' throughput. These organizations function as healthcare intermediaries or, in a technical language, as platforms in the two …-sided market for medical care, with the two sides being healthcare providers looking for patients and patients looking for …

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … performed in health care systems in Germany and Turkey. Several studies on the hospital quality of both countries pointed out to … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …

This paper analyses the effects of hospital closures in Germany in the context of emergency medical care for patients … the impact of hospital closures between 2006 and 2012 on geographical healthcare access and several patient clinical … outcomes. To minimize bias from the potential endogeneity between the hospital quality and market structure, I employ an …

This paper investigates the regional hospital efficiency in China during the 2002–2008 period, especially for how the …-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to handle the feature of multiple outputs and undesirable outputs in the hospital … industry, empirical estimates indicate that hospital efficiency is moderate that increased slightly from 0.6777 to 0 …

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 …

Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … performed in health care systems in Germany and Turkey. Several studies on the hospital quality of both countries pointed out to … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …