The relationship between quality management systems and organizational performance in the Italian National Health Service
β Scribed by Manuela S. Macinati
- Book ID
- 116516733
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 720 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8510
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Throughout the Western world policy makers are seeking to control the use of health care resources, Often the primary motive for these policies is t o control costs or the total level of public expenditure on health care. One manifestation of such policies in the USA is the use of diagnostic related
## Abstract In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private notβforβprofit hospitals, by exploiting the introduction of the DRGβbased payment system in the Italian NHS during the second half of the 1990s. We estimate the technical efficiency of a sample of hos