Die Privatisierung von Krankenhäusern, d.h. der Trägerwechsel von kommunalen und privat-freigemeinnützigen hin zu privat-gewinnorientierten Trägern wird seit Beginn dieser Entwicklung Anfang der 1990er Jahre kontrovers diskutiert. Zur Versachlichung der Debatte wurde im Jahr 2009 das...

Die Privatisierung von Krankenhäusern, d.h. der Trägerwechsel von kommunalen und privat-freigemeinnützigen hin zu privat-gewinnorientierten Trägern wird seit Beginn dieser Entwicklung Anfang der 1990er Jahre kontrovers diskutiert. Zur Versachlichung der Debatte wurde im Jahr 2009 das...

This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were assigned to two treatment groups, which were...

We consider the implications of Germany's demographic development on the regional structure of rural hospital care. According to different predictions regional disparities will arise. This will lead to a legal conflict with the German constitution which demands nationwide close-to-home hospital...

Public investment in hospitals in Germany has been insufficient for decades, making it difficultto finance digitization. Due to dual financing, hospitals could alternatively use their own profitsto pay for digitization efforts. This raises the question of whether there is a relationship...

This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm.We implement optimal full matching – a fully efficient algorithm – and present a framework for statistical inference. The implementation uses data from...