Background: High-income countries continuously reform their healthcare systems. Often,
similar reforms are introduced concomitantly across countries. Although national …

Public-private partnerships (PPP) is used to advance health service access and quality. PPP
implementation in hospitals is vital to shorten the service and quality gap. Hospitals are the …

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 …

Background Hospitals are the biggest users of the health system budgets. Policymakers are
interested in improving hospital efficiency while maintaining their performance during the …

Background: Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals
operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial …

There is growing evidence of a positive association between health care providers' financial
standing and the quality of care. In Poland, the instable financial situation and growing debt …

The shift from inpatient care to the ambulatory sector is a central aspiration of European
health systems. Despite demonstrated benefits, health reforms have struggled to realize …

The effects of diagnosis-related groups payment on efficiency of the hospital health care in
Croatia Page 1 561 www.cmj.hr Aim To assess the impact of Croatian reforms related to the …

Background Hospitals operate under constant pressure to contain costs and improve the
quality of care. The literature suggests that there is an association between health care …

Health system reforms in Latvia are the most ambitious and constructive in the last thirty
years in the following areas: infrastructure and map**, defining the role of local …