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Public problems: private solutions? Short-term contracting of inpatient hospital care [PDF]

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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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Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS [PDF]

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The literature on mergers between private hospitals suggests that such mergers often produce little benefit. Despite this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger.
Carol Propper   +2 more
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Evolution of the Governmental Accounting Reform implementation in Greek Public Hospitals: Testing the institutional framework [PDF]

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Purpose – In an attempt to promote efficiency, effectiveness and economy in health service production, the Greek government imposed in 2003 an accrual basis financial and cost accounting system in all public hospitals of the National Health System (NHS).
Eriotis, Nikolaos, Stamatiadis, Filippos
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An institutional sociology perspective of the implementation of activity based costing by Spanish health care institutions [PDF]

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According to institutional sociology, hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and fails to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance.
Eriksen, Scott D., Urrutia, Ignacio
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Indigenous identification in hospital separations data: quality report [PDF]

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This report presents the results of a study on the quality of Indigenous identification in administrative records of hospitalisations in public hospitals in Australia.An estimated 88% of Indigenous patients were correctly identified in public hospital

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Comparison of the effectiveness of inhaler devices in asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease: a systematic review of the literature

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2001
D. Brocklebank   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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