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	EVALUATING HOSPITAL POLICY AND PERFORMANCE, 18 Contributions From Hospital Policy and Productivity Research To order this title, and for more information, click here Edited By Jos Blank, Delft University of Technology Vivian Valdmanis, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, USA Description Hospitals worldwide command the majority of any countries? health care budget. Reasons for these higher costs include the aging of the population requiring more intensive health care treatments provided in hospitals, the relatively high costs of labor in this labor intensive industry and payment systems that may encourage inefficient behavior on the part of hospital managers and physicians. Governments are seeking to instruments to mitigate this cost rise. Liberalizing hospital markets, deregulation, changing budget systems and changing ownership are only a few examples of attempts to make hospitals more efficient. Hospital industry responds in various ways to changing market conditions and legislation. In most western hospital markets we observe hospital consolidation, acquisitions, mergers and the founding of several types of network and hospital associations. The question is whether this trend also contributes to more efficiency. In this volume a number of outstanding internationally known scholars in the field of productivity measurement and health economics provide the reader with an excellent insight in the complexity of the issue. They explain that there is no straightforward panacea or recipe for the issues addressed. It is shown that the composition of the demand for care, the economic context, environmental and geographical conditions affect the outcomes. Policymakers should therefore take these nuances into account. A policy of increasing productivity starts with knowledge and insights in the complexity of the issue. The book therefore advocates the development of a strategy of collecting relevant data and conducting academic research that meet the standard of the state of the art. The book provides two illustrative examples of such a strategy in Finland and Australia. The authors have avoided as much as possible the technical jargon and complex mathematics and statistics involved in this research area. Therefore the book is par excellence suitable for policymakers and hospital managers, as well as for graduate students of health economics and health administration. Audience Policymakers and hospital managers, as well as for graduate students of health economics and health administration Contents Part One: Introductory and Methodological Issues Ch 1: Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis: Productivity in Hospital Industry Ch 2: Bert M. Balk: Measuring and Decomposing Productivity Change: The Basics Ch 3: James F. Burgess Jr.: Measuring Hospital Services Part Two: Developments in Hospital Industry Ch 4: Gloria J. Bazzoli: Hospital Consolidation and Integration Activity Ch.5: Ila Semenick Alam and Gerald Granderson: Organizational Structure and Productive Efficiency of Non-profit Hospitals Ch 6: Jos L.T. Blank: Innovations and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation in Dutch Hospital Industry Part Three: Government Policy Ch 7: Ryan L. Mutter and Michael D. Rosko: The Impact of Ownership on the Cost-Efficiency of U.S. Hospitals Ch 8: Nazmi Sari: Competition and Market Concentration Ch 9: Gary D. Ferrier and Vivian G. Valdmanis: Efficiency and Productivity Changes in Large Urban Hospitals 1994-2002: Ownership, Markets and the uninsured Part Four: Management Policy and MTA Ch 10: Miika Linna and Unto Hakkinen: Benchmarking Finnish Hospitals Ch 11: Abby Bloom: Efficiency in Government-funded Health Care Services: The Use of non-Health Sector Mechanisms to Encourage Efficiency Ch 12: Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, Mats Lundstrom and Pontus Roos: Evaluating Health Care Efficiency Part Five: Concluding Remarks Ch 13: Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis: Productivity Research in Hospital Industry Bibliographic details Hardbound, 270 pages, publication date: DEC-2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-7623-1453-9 ISBN-10: 0-7623-1453-2 Imprint: JAI Price and Ordering Price: EUR 100 USD 120 GBP 70 Books and book related electronic products are priced in US dollars (USD), euro (EUR), and Great Britain Pounds (GBP). USD prices apply to the Americas and Asia Pacific. EUR prices apply in Europe and the Middle East. GBP prices apply to the UK and all other countries. See also information about conditions of sale & ordering procedures, and links to our regional sales offices. 081/860 Last update: 27 Sep 2008	Book contents Table of contents Reviews Submit your review Bookmark this page Recommend this publication Overview of all books