Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals [PDF]
This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of ...
Annika Herr +2 more
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Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service [PDF]
, 2017 A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents.
Beckert, Walter, Kelly, E.
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پیاورد سلامت, 2020 Background and Aim: Nowadays, medical tourism market is considered as one of the most profitable and competitive industries in the world and is one of the new areas of advanced tourism.
Masood Taheri Mirghaed +4 more
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILISATION OF IN-PATIENT BEDS IN IRISH ACUTE PUBLIC HOSPITALS. ESRI Research Bulletin 2010/4/5 [PDF]
, 2010 Health care systems in many developed countries have services financed and provided by both public and private sectors. In Ireland, though, the public/private mix is atypical: a private patient can be treated in an acute public hospital and seen by a ...
O’Reilly, Jacqueline, Wiley, Miriam
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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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Assessing Service Quality in the Ghanaian Private Healthcare Sector: The Case of Comboni Hospital. [PDF]
, 2020 The healthcare industry has become a paramount concern for most people in Ghana and the quality of services rendered to the patients in the private hospitals cannot be overemphasized.
Agbi, Fortune Afi
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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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Private hospitals\' difficulties: Top managers\' perspective
Payesh, 2011 Objective(s): To explore difficulties existing between private hospitals and other health related organizations such as Ministry of Health, Medical Council, Emergency Center, State Forensic Medical Organization, and insurance agencies in Tehran, Iran ...
Fatemeh Zariei Gavkani +3 more
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Prospective payment system : consequences for hospital-physician interactions in the private sector [PDF]
In 2004, French health authorities plan to introduce a prospective payment system for hospitals delivering acute care based on the DRG classification system.
Ana, MAULEON +2 more
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THE PERFORMANCE INDEX OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITALS OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020 Objective: To compare the performance index of private and public sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: In a tertiary care hospitals (one private and one public sector) of Karachi ...
Najm Us Saqib Khan +5 more
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