Following the US experience, activity-based funding has become the most common
mechanism for reimbursing hospitals in Europe. Focusing on five European countries …

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 …

Hierbij presenteren wij met veel genoegen de geactualiseerde versie van de
Kostenhandleiding voor Economische Evaluaties in de Gezondheidszorg: Methodologie en …

This paper reviews implementation of ERAS and its financial implications. Literature on
clinical outcomes and financial implications were reviewed. Reports from many different …

Background Accurate hospital costs are required for policy-makers, hospital managers and
clinicians to improve efficiency and transparency. However, different methods are used to …

Background: Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based hospital payment systems have
gradually become the principal means of reimbursing hospitals in many European countries …

There is broad support to pay for value, rather than volume, for health care in the United
States. Despite the support, practical approaches for measuring value remain elusive. Value …

In this paper, we build upon the crisis literature and theorisation of enabling design
principles to examine how cost information was calculated and used in response to the …

We set out an analytical strategy to examine variations in resource use, whether cost or
length of stay, of patients hospitalised with different conditions. The methods are designed to …

The rising cost of healthcare is a globally pressing concern. This makes detailed attention to
the way in which costing is carried out of central importance. This article offers a framework …