Evaluating hospital policy and performance contributions from hospital policy and productivity research

Hospitals worldwide command the majority of any countries health care budget. Reasons for these higher costs include the aging of the population requiring more intensive health care treatments provided in hospitals, the relatively high costs of labor in this labor intensive industry and payment syst...

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Other Authors Kaestner, Robert, Lo Sasso, Anthony T., Helmchen, Lorens, Blank, Jos L. T., Valdmanis, Vivian G.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesAdvances in health economics and health services research ; v. 18.
Subjects
Hospitals.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849505772
ISSN0731-2199 ;
DOI10.1016/S0731-2199(2007)18
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 250 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • The impact of ownership on the cost-efficiency of U.S. hospitals / Ryan L. Mutter, Michael D. Rosko
  • Measuring and decomposing productivity change : the basics / Bert M. Balk
  • Competition and market concentration / Nazmi Sari
  • Efficiency and productivity changes in large urban hospitals 1994-2002 : ownership, markets, and the uninsured / Gary D. Ferrier, Vivian G. Valdmanis
  • Benchmarking Finnish hospitals / Miika Linna, Unto Häkkinen
  • Efficiency in government-funded health care services : the use of non-health sector mechanisms to encourage efficiency / Abby L. Bloom
  • Evaluating health care efficiency / Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Mats Lundström, Pontus Roos
  • Efficiency in hospital industry : summary and conclusions / Jos L.T. Blank, Vivian G. Valdmanis
  • Productivity in hospital industry / Jos L.T. Blank, Vivian G. Valdmanis
  • Measuring hospital services / James F. Burgess, Jr.
  • Hospital consolidation and integration activity in the United States / Gloria J. Bazzoli
  • Organizational structure and productive efficiency of non-profit hospitals / Ila Semenick Alam, Gerald Granderson
  • Innovations and productivity : an empirical investigation in Dutch hospital industry / Jos L.T. Blank
  • Preface / Jos L.T. Blank, Vivian G. Valdmanis.

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