International comparisons of healthcare costs are growing in importance for a number of different applications. The use of common approaches to converting costs such as GDP purchasing power parities (PPPs) often does not reflect price differences in healthcare in an appropriate manner. This...

The aim of this study was to determine whether between-country variations in hospital costs are larger than withincountry variations and, furthermore, to explore reasons for this variability. For this purpose, we chose the primary treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as...

Wie funktioniert Gesundheitspolitik anderswo und warum? Seit März 2003 berichten Experten aus sechzehn Industrieländern zweimal jährlich zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Gesundheitspolitik. Schwerpunkte des vorliegenden zweiten Reports "Gesundheitspolitik in Industrieländern" (Zeitraum...