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Measuring hospital case mix: Evaluation of alternative approaches for the Irish hospital system

Aisbett, Chris; Wiley, Miriam; McCarthy, Brian; … - 2007

in Ireland. Since 1993, various versions of the DRG grouper supported by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA … comparison. The empirical analysis ranked the AR DRG Groupers highly relative to the alternatives. Additional factors favouring … the AR DRG series of Groupers are the fact that they are the more widely used internationally, are updated regularly and …

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Managing the patient portfolio using mathematical programming: decision support guidelines using a real-world use case at a university hospital

Grieger, Milena; Heider, Steffen; McRae, Sebastian; … - In: Journal of Business Economics 94 (2024) 9, pp. 1245-1260

Many hospitals in Germany are facing escalating economic pressures. After several years of stagnation, the number of inpatient hospital treatments dropped by in 2020 compared to the previous year. This negative tendency can also be seen in operating theaters (OTs). Strategic management of the...

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Primate evidence on the late health effects of early life adversity

Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - 2012

This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions:...

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Regional SDG performance in Bulgaria and Romania: Poverty, education, and decent work

Ciucu, Alexandra-Nicoleta; Stoychev, Kosyo; Delcea, Camelia - In: Amfiteatru Economic 26 (2024) Special Issue No. 18, pp. 1208-1223

Sustainable development emerged from the desire of global authorities to ensure a balance between economic, ecological, and social plans, thus showing that the interest in economic growth must be mediated by ensuring a decent living for all inhabitants of the planet. The current research...

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Dynamic, incentive-compatible contracting for health services

Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2023

This paper aims to characterise a dynamic, incentive-compatible contract for the provision of health services, allowing for both moral hazard and adverse selection. Patients' severity changes over time following a stochastic process and is private information of the provider. We characterise the...

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Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes

Wozny, Florian - 2020

Changes in medical expenses may force hospitals to reallocate their resources, which potentially come at the detriment of healthcare quality. Using data on the universe of German hospitals, I investigate resource reallocations between capital stock, human resources, services and the...

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Country-level effects of diagnosis-related groups: evidence from Germany’s comprehensive reform of hospital payments

Messerle, Robert; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 25 (2023) 6, pp. 1013-1030

Hospitals account for about 40% of all healthcare expenditure in high-income countries and play a central role in healthcare provision. The ways in which they are paid, therefore, has major implications for the care they provide. However, our knowledge about reforms that have been made to the...

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Swiss hospital financing with DRGs: Are there treatments/- combinations that are associated with profitability?

Subelack, Jonas - 2025

associated with the profitability of Swiss acute-care hospitals under the current diagnosis-related group (S-DRG) reimbursement … hospital profitability based on the treatments and combinations of treatments performed indicates that the S-DRG reimbursement …, while the serious injury service area is mainly associated with losses. Therefore, minor adjustments to the S-DRG cost …

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Country-level effects of diagnosis-related groups: evidence from Germany’s comprehensive reform of hospital payments

Messerle, Robert; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 25 (2023) 6, pp. 1013-1030

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Noisy signals: Do ratings' volatility depend on the length of the consumption span?

Boto-García, David; Leoni, Veronica - 2023

This paper investigates the informational content of online reviews. For the case of hotels, we model how the length of the stay shapes the variance of review scores. Grounded on violations of temporal monotonicity, errors in recall and hedonic adaptation theories, we first present a...

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