Abstract Background The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has long been the
main basis for comparability of statistics on causes of mortality and morbidity between …

This article seeks to review the Australian healthcare system and compare it to similar
systems in other countries to highlight the main issues and problems. A literature search for …

Hospital staff and resources allocation (HSRA) is a critical challenge in healthcare systems,
as it involves balancing the demands of patients, the availability of resources, and the need …

Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the …

Background Ukraine, one of the largest states formed on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is
widely perceived as a country that has lost its opportunities. Being devastated by corruption …

Hospitals account for about 40% of all healthcare expenditure in high-income countries and
play a central role in healthcare provision. The ways in which they are paid, therefore, has …

Governments world-wide have attempted to use market mechanisms and privatisation to
increase the quality and/or reduce the cost of healthcare. England's Health and Social Care …

Background Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-
shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related groups. Many …

Objective To develop expeditiously a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software
framework for understanding and improving healthcare value (costs relative to outcomes) …

Policymakers now have four decades' experience using marketization to address cost and
quality problems in public‐sector health services. While much is known about the …