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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049864
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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Tax Elasticity Estimates for Capital Stocks in Canada
Wen, Jean-François - 2020
The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open economy, exploiting three sources of variation in Canadian tax policy: across provinces, industries, and years. Estimates of the UCE with Canadian data are less prone to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829695
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Stress on the Ward - An Empirical Study of the Nonlinear Relationship between Organizational Workload and Service Quality
Mennicken, Roman; Kuntz, Ludwig; Scholtes, Stefan - 2011
departments across 101 hospitals, we provide empirical support for the nonlinearity hypothesis in the context of hospital survival … rates. We further discuss the implications for hospital capacity planning and the wider implications for service operations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177891
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The Relationship between Quality and Hospital Case Volume – An Empirical Examination with German Data
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2012
This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040688
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Assessing Hospital Efficiency : Non-Parametric Evidence for Portugal
Afonso, António; Fernandes, Sónia - 2008
entrepreneurial framework. With data on hospital services' and resource quantities we construct an output distance function, we assess … average, the NHS hospital sector revealed positive but small productivity growth between 2000 and 2004. The mean TFP indices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220386
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Hospital Type and Patient Outcomes : An Empirical Examination Using AMI Re-Admission and Mortality Records
Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth; Witt, Julia - 2011
country). Using data collected from 130 Victorian hospitals on 19,000 patients admitted to a hospital with their first AMI … unplanned re-admission and mortality. A hazard rate model is used to assess the effect of hospital type on patient outcome … hospital types in the outcomes observed for patients presenting with their first AMI - private hospitals persistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222618
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The Effects of Health Information Exchange Access on Healthcare Quality and Efficiency : An Empirical Investigation
Janakiraman, Ramkumar - 2017
unique panel data of actual HIE access by physicians who practice in a hospital system that participate in an HIE. The … patient-specific, doctor-specific, and hospital-specific control variables, our results show that HIE access in EDs results in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963251
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The relationship between quality and hospital case volume : an empirical examination with German data
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2012
This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580155
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Stress on the ward : an empirical study of the nonlinear relationship between organizational workload and service quality
Kuntz, Ludwig; Mennicken, Roman; Scholtes, Stefan - 2011
context of hospital survival rates. We further discuss the implications for hospital capacity planning and the wider … implications for service operations management. -- Service quality ; service outcomes ; organizational workload ; hospital capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580291