The long-term financial stability of hospital systems represents a “grand challenge” in health care. New ownership … exited Steward in 2020 in a deal that left its physicians, the new owners, holding the debt. …

This paper studies the growth on demand for hospital's services and the scarcity of resources suffered by Brazilian … public's hospitals, propound a model of result's management for hospital services, which support the process's management …, having the ABC method to cost activities and their objects. A model of ABC and ABM was implanted in a public hospital …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … hospitals by privileging profitable patients than hospitals in highly concentrated markets. -- Hospital markets ; Patients …

. This study examines the empirical evidence for this assertion, based on Australian data. While hospital proximity might …

we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used … where hospital closures reallocate large numbers of patients to hospitals of different quality. This setting allows us to … measure whether patient outcomes improve as much as quality indicators predict when a relatively low-quality hospital closes …

There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …

increasingly demand specific drugs, treatment, or other medical services from their physicians. If the physician fails to provide … their treatment plans. As a result of these treatment demands, physicians are under growing pressure to provide the …'s financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist …