systems. Methods: National or regional databases were used to identify hospital cases with a procedure of cholecystectomy. DRG …% of cases. Six standardised case vignettes were defined, and quasi prices according to national DRG-based hospital payment …. Surgeons, hospital managers and national DRG authorities should consider how other countries’ DRG systems classify …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting … or with less discrimination. -- Private health insurance ; waiting time ; German acute care hospitals …