Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency - Insights from the German hospital market.

ABSTRACT: With hospital budgets remaining tight and healthcare expenditure rising due to demographic change and advances in technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market. Doing so, however, can be challenging given unpredictable fluctuations in demand, a prime example of which are emergencies, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals' efficiency, however, has been neglected in the literature to date. This study therefore aims to investigate the relationship between hospitals' urgency characteristics and their efficiency. Our analyses are based on 4094 observation

SUBMITTER: Schneider AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674330 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature