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Comparison of Two Public Sector Tertiary Care Hospitals’ Management in Reducing Direct Medical Cost Burden on Breast Carcinoma Patients in Lahore, Pakistan

Khaliq, Imran Hameed - 2018

hospital (median US$1153.93/Rs. 118,589) was significantly higher than Mayo hospital (median US$427.93/Rs. 43,978), p<0.001; r … hospital's patients as compared to Jinnah hospital.Conclusion: This study indicates that OOP direct medical cost burden was … found considerably less in Mayo hospital as compared to Jinnah hospital. The OOP expenditures on chemotherapy were …

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The Grass is Not Always Greener : A Look at National Health Care Systems around the World

Tanner, Michael - 2013

Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem to enjoy better health outcomes. The United States should follow the lead of those countries, the...

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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system

Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert; … - 2011

We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public …

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On the Efficiency of Public, Welfare and Private Hospitals in Germany Over Time - A Sectoral DEA-Study

Helmig, Bernd; Lapsley, Irvine - 2007

This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public …, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector …

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Comparative assessment of patient safety culture performance in OECD countries : Findings based on the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture versions 1 and 2

de Bienassis, Katherine - 2024

the state-of-the-art of patient safety measurement using the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) and is the … perceptions of safe staffing and workpace levels and response to errors among hospital workers, areas that could be targeted for …

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International comparison of South African private hospital price levels

Lorenzoni, Luca; Roubal, Tomas - 2016

The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can afford to purchase private insurance....

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Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals

Held, Bärbel - 2014

The health care system in Germany is undergoing a phase of transformation. The resulting challenges and fields of action for the hospitals were described as one outcome of a scenario analysis conducted by the author. These include, for example, setting up new organisation structures,...

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The Convergence between Nonprofit and For-Profit Hospitals in the Us; 1960-1999

David, Guy - 2011

certain market conditions. By tracking key variables of hospital behavior in the United States between 1960 and 1999, this … types. Analysis of hospital-level data for California indicates that the convergence was effected largely through …

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Can Private Insurers Fail to Cream-Skim the Public Option? Evidence from the Individual Mandate in Germany

Polyakova, Maria - 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that if private health insurance plans compete alongside a public option, they may endanger the latter's financial stability by cream-skimming good risks. Documenting cream-skimming in dual insurance systems empirically is challenging, since selection into private...

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The Economics of the Public Option : Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; González, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...

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