Intensive care units (ICUs) operate with fixed capacities and face uncertainty such as demand variability, leading to demand-driven, early discharges to free up beds. These discharges can increase readmission rates, negatively impacting patient outcomes and aggravating ICU bottleneck congestion....

Intensive care units (ICUs) operate with fixed capacities and face uncertainty such as demand variability, leading to demand-driven, early discharges to free up beds. These discharges can increase ICU readmission rates, negatively impacting patient outcomes and aggravating ICU bottleneck...

Only positive instances of various events, e.g., secondary diagnoses, are actively labeled in hospital administrative data. In line with this, several studies indicate underreporting of adverse events such as sepsis. The gold standard for relabeling of uncoded sepsis cases, medical record...

Unter Low Value Care werden Leistungen verstanden, die im individuellen Kontext (a) den Patienten wenig oder keinen Nutzen bringen, (b) potenziell Schaden verursachen, (c) unnötige Kosten verursachen und/oder (d) im Vergleich zur Anwendung alternativer Leistungen bzw. der Anwendung bei einer...

Background Between 2008 and 2018, the share of robotic-assisted surgeries (RAS) for radical prostatectomies (RPEs) has increased from 3 to 46% in Germany. Firstly, we investigate if this difusion of RAS has contributed to RPE treatment centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of...