Acta OrthopaedicaBackground and purpose: This study aims to assess time trends in case-mix and to evaluate the risk of revision and causes following primary THA, TKA, and UKA in private and public hospitals in the Netherlands.
Bart-Jan van Dooren +7 more
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Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service [PDF]
This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals.
Alistair McGuire +3 more
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Technological and Efficiency Change of Private Hospitals in Tanzania: Does the Size Matter? [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and EconomicsThis study measures productivity of private hospitals in Tanzania based on the hospitals size. Specifically, the study aims at evaluating technological change and efficiency change based on hospitals’ size.
Kembo Bwana
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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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Patient choice in the NHS: How critical are facilities services in influencing patient choice? [PDF]
, 2006 Purpose – From December 2005, patients in the UK needing an operation will be offered a choice of four or five. These could be NHS trusts, foundation trusts, treatment centres, private hospitals or practitioners with a special interest operating within ...
May, D., Miller, L.
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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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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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Analisis Faktor Determinan yang Mempengaruhi Kinerja Organisasi Rumah Sakit (RS) Swasta [PDF]
, 2015 This study aims to reveal and clarify the influence of organizational culture, organizational commitment and public accountability to the organizational performance of Private Hospital in West Jakarta.
Thomas, G. N. (Gen)
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Private hospital expansion in China: a global perspective
Global Health Journal, 2018 Objective: To assess the private hospital development in China during 2005-2016 from a global perspective.Methods: We searched the English and Chinese literature in PubMed, CNKI and Google Scholar databases with the keywords including “private hospitals ...
Chenhui Deng, Xiaosong Li, Jay Pan
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EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF HOSPITALS IN THE GREAT PLAINS: AN URBAN-RURAL COMPARISON [PDF]
This study examined the efficiency of a sample of hospitals in the Great Plains using a nonparametric approach. Technical efficiency was less than either allocative or scale efficiency.
Featherstone, Allen M. +2 more
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