Incorporating efficiency in hospital-capacity planning in Germany

Hospital occupancy is a key metric in hospital-capacity planning in Germany, even though this metric neglects important drivers of economic efficiency, for example treatment costs and case mix. We suggest an alternative metric, which incorporates economic efficiency explicitly, and illustrate how th...

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Veröffentlicht in:The European Journal of Health Economics. - Springer Science + Business Media. - 8(2007), 3, Seite 213-223
1. Verfasser: Kuntz, Ludwig (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Scholtes, Stefan, Vera, Antonio
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The European Journal of Health Economics
Schlagworte:Arts Health sciences Economics Business Law