Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals – A Stochastic Frontier Analysis [PDF]
Using a newly available and multifaceted dataset provided by the German Federal Statistical Office, this paper is the first to investigate both technical and cost efficiency of more than 1500 German general hospitals conducting a stochastic frontier ...
Annika Frohloff
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Ownership, Incentives and Hospitals [PDF]
, 2014 This article analyzes hospital privatization by comparing costs and quality between different ownership forms. We put the attention on the distinction between public hospitals and private hospitals with public funding.
Fageda, Xavier, 1975-, Fiz Querol, Eva
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Organizational Structure and Performances of Responsible Malaysian Healthcare Providers: A Balanced Scorecard Perspective [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims to assess the organizational structure and performances through the Balanced Scorecard of Malaysian private hospitals by focusing on top management's perceptions.
Ramli, Aliza, Shukri, Nur Faezah Mohd
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Public problems: private solutions? Short-term contracting of inpatient hospital care [PDF]
Executive summary Public patients are routinely being treated in Australian private hospitals. Some jurisdictions have large-scale, planned programs where private or not-for-profit hospitals are contracted by the public sector to treat public inpatients
Anne-Marie Boxall +2 more
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Health Care Waste Management Practices in Public and Private Sector Hospitals
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2014 Background: To assess the existing health care waste management practices in public and private sector hospitals of Bahawalpur City. Methods: In this cross sectional descriptive study all private hospitals of Bahawalpur City and 24 public sector sites ...
Samina Badar
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Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California [PDF]
Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and 1996.
Janet Currie, John Fahr
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Delayed chest wall abscess after blunt trauma chest leading to multi-organ failure: A case report
Trauma Case ReportsBlunt Trauma Chest (BTC) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in trauma patients. Although rib fractures, haemothorax, pneumothorax and lung contusions are often found in tandem in BTC, delayed necrotising soft tissue infection (NSTI) without any
Binayak Deb +3 more
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The Lancet Regional Health. Western PacificSummary: China’s private hospital market has experienced rapid growth over the last decade, with private hospitals now outnumbering public hospitals by a factor of two.
Xiaoxi Zhang +4 more
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Health insurance and health care utilization: Theory and evidence from Australia 1989-90, CHERE Discussion Paper No 44 [PDF]
The Australian hospital system is characterised by the co-existence of private hospitals, where individuals pay for services and public hospitals, where services are free to all but delivered after a waiting time.
Elizabeth Savage
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The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals [PDF]
This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected
Ansgar Wübker +2 more
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