This article focuses on describing the methodological challenges intrinsic in international comparative studies of hospital productivity and how these challenges have been addressed within the context of hospital comparisons in the Nordic countries. The hospital sectors in the Nordic countries...

This article describes the methodological challenges associated with disease-based international comparison of health system performance and how they have been addressed in the EuroHOPE (European Health Care Outcomes, Performance and Efficiency) project. The project uses linkable patient-level...

The objective of this study is to perform a cross-country comparison of cancer treatment costs in the Nordic countries, and to demonstrate the added value of decomposing documented costs in interpreting national differences.

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: Obesity is a well-known risk factor for sick leave, disability pension and premature death. Obesity is therefore presumably related to in-creased productivity losses. <Emphasis Type="Bold">Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the lifetime productivity losses to society associated with obesity...</emphasis></emphasis>