In 2014, the State of Maryland in the U.S. implemented a substantial change to their hospital payment approach in the form of ‘Global Budgets'. This strategy for financing garnered significant attention because acute care hospitals in the state transitioned from a fee-for-service hospital...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how specialization in hospitals affects operational performance, measured by the length of stay and readmission rate. The authors assess a public policy change in the Danish healthcare sector from 2011 which required that some hospital services had...

This paper analyzes how hospital service centralization affects performance, assessed by length of stay and readmission rate. The centralization was demanded by a public policy change in Danish healthcare in 2011. We adopt the view of institutional theory and employ a mixed-methods approach in a...

This single-case study explores whether Lean management can improve efficiency in patient treatment at hospitals. Using a case study methodology, we investigate the implementation of Lean at Odense University Hospital (Denmark) and rely on both qualitative and quantitative data for our analysis....