Keyword: hospitals

Found 10 papers in total
The interplay between regulation and efficiency: Evidence from the Austrian hospital inpatient sector
2015,
The Austrian health policy aims to maintain and even expand high-quality health care....
Estimating the efficiency of Portuguese hospitals using an appropriate production technology
2013,
This paper investigates the production technology of Portuguese hospitals using...
Does a hospital’s IT architecture fit with its strategy? An approach to measure the alignment of health information technology
2014,
Hospitals as the main entities of healthcare need to respond to policy initiatives...
Stochastic Operating Room Scheduling for High‐Volume Specialties Under Block Booking
2013,
Scheduling elective procedures in an operating suite is a formidable task because of...
Flexible approach to patients satisfaction: a case of Indian private hospitals
2013,
Access, availability, quality and cost‐effective healthcare services are the...
Prioritizing Burn‐Injured Patients During a Disaster
2013,
The U.S. government has mandated that, in a catastrophic event, metropolitan areas...
On Hospice Operations Under Medicare Reimbursement Policies
2013,
This paper analyzes the United States Medicare hospice reimbursement policy. The...
Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities, and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
2012,
The long‐standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in...
Focus as emphasis: Conceptual and performance implications for hospitals
2011,
Focus in hospitals has been heralded as the next frontier in improving its efficiency...
Estimating hospital production functions through flexible regression models
2011,
The subject of discussion is health care production functions. The parametric...
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