Public release of hospital quality data for referral practices in Germany: results from a cluster-randomised controlled trial [0.03%]
德国针对转诊医院质量数据公开的集群随机对照试验结果
Martin Emmert,Nina Meszmer,Lisa Jablonski et al.
Martin Emmert et al.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of different dissemination channels on the awareness and usage of hospital performance reports among referring physicians, as well as the usefulness of such reports from the referring phy...
Economics of open tibial fractures: the pivotal role of length-of-stay and infection [0.03%]
开放性胫骨骨折的经济学问题：住院时间和感染的关键作用
Harm Hoekstra,Bart Smeets,Willem-Jan Metsemakers et al.
Harm Hoekstra et al.
In order to define strategies to curb the continuing increase in healthcare costs, we describe the cost breakdown of open tibial fractures. Twenty-seven clinical and process variables were recorded retrospectively, and five main hospital re...
Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health spending on maternal care in public and private health centres in India: a comparative study of pre and post national health mission period [0.03%]
国家卫生使命计划前后期印度公共部门和私人部门产妇护理的自费支出与灾难性健康支出：一项比较研究
Sanjay K Mohanty,Anshul Kastor
Sanjay K Mohanty
Background: The National Health Mission (NHM), one of the largest publicly funded maternal health programs worldwide was initiated in 2005 to reduce maternal, neo-natal and infant mortality and out-of-pocket expenditure (...
Adjusting health spending for the presence of comorbidities: an application to United States national inpatient data [0.03%]
根据合并症状况调整卫生总费用支出——在美国国家住院患者数据中的应用
Joseph L Dieleman,Ranju Baral,Elizabeth Johnson et al.
Joseph L Dieleman et al.
Background: One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comor...
Son Hong Nghiem,Luke Brian Connelly
Son Hong Nghiem
This study examines the trend and determinants of health expenditures in OECD countries over the 1975-2004 period. Based on recent developments in the economic growth literature we propose and test the hypothesis that health care expenditur...
Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan [0.03%]
日本门诊费用共付比例降低对儿童住院服务的影响分析
Hirotaka Kato,Rei Goto
Hirotaka Kato
Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. ...
Some microeconometric evidence on the relationship between health and income [0.03%]
健康与收入关系的微观计量经济学证据
Amélie Adeline,Eric Delattre
Amélie Adeline
This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the ide...
Discrete-choice modelling of patient preferences for modes of drug administration [0.03%]
药物给药方式的患者偏好评定的离散选择模型
Ebenezer Kwabena Tetteh,Steve Morris,Nigel Titcheneker-Hooker
Ebenezer Kwabena Tetteh
The administration of (biologically-derived) drugs for various disease conditions involves consumption of resources that constitutes a direct monetary cost to healthcare payers and providers. An often ignored cost relates to a mismatch betw...
Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality: evidence from the physiotherapy market [0.03%]
价格监管和自由选择对质量的影响评估：来自物理治疗市场的证据
Piia Pekola,Ismo Linnosmaa,Hennamari Mikkola
Piia Pekola
In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is...
Murad Ali,Megersa Debela,Tewfik Bamud
Murad Ali
This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study examines the technical efficiency, total factor productivity, ...