Do quality and access to hospital services impact on their technical efficiency?

DC Ferreira, RC Marques - Omega, 2019 - Elsevier
Investigating the impact of quality and access to healthcare services on technical efficiency
is a hot topic in health economics and healthcare systems management. No satisfactory …

The association between bed occupancy rates and hospital quality in the English National Health Service

L Bosque-Mercader, L Siciliani - The European Journal of Health …, 2023 - Springer
We study whether hospitals that exhibit systematically higher bed occupancy rates are
associated with lower quality in England over 2010/11–2017/18. We develop an economic …

Hospital performance: Efficiency or quality? Can we have both with IT?

R Gholami, DA Higón, A Emrouznejad - Expert systems with applications, 2015 - Elsevier
The influence of IT investment on hospital efficiency and quality are of great interest to
healthcare executives as well as insurers. Few studies have examined how IT investments …

Why healthcare market needs government intervention to improve access to essential medicines and healthcare efficiency: a scoping review from pharmaceutical …

M Mensa Sorato, M Davari… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Access to quality essential medicines at affordable price to patients in the
healthcare market is one of the main goals of universal health coverage and health-related …

Assessing the excess costs of the in-hospital adverse events covered by the AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators in Switzerland

A Giese, R Khanam, S Nghiem, A Staines… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
There currently exists no comprehensive and up-to date overview on the financial impact of
the different adverse events covered by the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) from the Agency …

Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care: The case of Portuguese public hospitals

DC Ferreira, AM Nunes, RC Marques - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2020 - Springer
Health care systems face resource scarcity that may jeopardise their financial sustainability
as well as the quality of delivered health care. In view of that, the association between …

[HTML][HTML] Do EHR and HIE deliver on their promise? Analysis of Pennsylvania acute care hospitals

DR Pai, B Rajan, S Chakraborty - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The HITECH Act of 2009 promoted the use of health information
technology (HIT). There is limited research on the effect of health information exchange …

Performance of accountable care organizations: Health information technology and quality–efficiency trade-offs

C Bao, IR Bardhan - Information Systems Research, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were established under the Affordable Care Act to
address systemic problems afflicting the US healthcare system related to high costs and …

TRULY INEFFICIENT OR PROVIDING BETTER QUALITY OF CARE? ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RISK‐ADJUSTED HOSPITAL COSTS AND …

N Gutacker, C Bojke, S Daidone, NJ Devlin… - Health …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Observed variation in hospital costs may be attributable to differences in patients' health
outcomes. Previous studies have resorted to inherently incomplete outcome measures such …

Patient-reported experience is associated with higher future revenue and lower costs of hospitals

A Giese, R Khanam, S Nghiem, T Rosemann… - The European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background Despite the established positive association between patient experience and
patient volume, the relationship between patient experience and the financial performance …