Integrating the diverse structures of academic medical centers -- Integrating clinical care delivery systems -- Leadership in the academic medical center -- Fixing the broken pipeline of AMC scientists -- Resolving conflicts of interest -- Commercializing research discoveries -- Resolving the...

This paper investigates the social-welfare efficiency drivers of public university hospitals in Brazil by focusing on how the surrounding social welfare conditions may affect their performance. A novel Genetic Envelopment Analysis (GEA) approach is developed here to this end. Subsequently, LASSO...

Der deutsche Krankenhaussektor hat in den letzten Jahren eine sehr dynamische Entwicklung genommen, die mit einer deutlichen Wettbewerbsverschärfung einhergegangen ist. Um die eigene Existenz zu sichern, ist es für Krankenhäuser erforderlich geworden, auf moderne Controllinginstrumente...

In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We...